Analog or Digital Playback On This Video?

Is This Video a Recording of Analog or Digital Playback?

  • Analog

    Votes: 2 50.0%
  • Digital

    Votes: 2 50.0%

  • Total voters
    4
However :

Vimeo has a 3-tier pricing scheme:

  1. Vimeo Basic users pay no fee and are limited to uploading 1 HD video and 500MB of content per week (and at reduced upload speeds), but can still upload 10 standard definition (SD) videos per day. Videos cannot be embedded in HD. Banner ads will appear on their videos.
  2. Vimeo Plus users pay $9.95/month and can upload 5GB of HD videos per week, up to 260GB per year, and are also able to embed their videos in HD. Their videos are played back free of ads. Plus users have more channel customizations options than Basic users, but cannot add specific branding.
  3. Vimeo PRO costs $199/year. PRO users can upload 20GB of HD video per week, up to 1000GB per year, and receive faster upload times and banner ad-free playback of their videos. Their videos can also be embedded in HD. Videos are played back ad-free, and there are no banner ads on the page. Users can also create unlimited groups, channels, and albums, and have the option for the Vimeo On Demand distribution service, which offers a 90/10 revenue split. PRO users have advanced customization options for their channel and can add their own branding, and get unlimited HD plays on any device.
YouTube is free, and has no structured pricing plan. Videos are limited to 15 minutes in length for most users, and there is no limit to the amount of videos that may be uploaded or viewed.
Does this include 24/96 or some version of hirez sound?
 
I immediately knew it was analogue. Listen to the popping and other background noise, the cartridge mistraking, the wrong azimuth, the stylus rake angle, the off center pressing, the turntable wow and flutter, the wrong RIAA setting and the inherent ability of utube audio to reveal minute sonic anomalies. So obvious.
 
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I couldn't tell, as the audio was very veiled in the frequencies or ways I can usually tell. I don't find these YT videos very useful for judging sound quality. Except for determining how a speaker handles bass and or room acoustics. That can be pretty clear.
 
Audio bit rates on Vimeo are up to 320 kbps while YouTube uses 192kbps for its audio playback.
YouTube is 128kbps AAC. YouTube Music streams at 256kbps. AAC is a newer format than MP3. Music encoded at 256kbps AAC is is considered equivalent to 320kbps MP3.
 
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