WBF Poll: Which Sounds Better, Digital or Analog?
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Surely. It is why I would appreciate reading your comparative findings about the PD, the Vivaldi, the new Metronome C8+ and the Trinity.
Comparing top-level vinyl with all these obviously will be something that hardly anyone here has done. Or did someone?
Indeed. The DAC/Digital forum routinely has higher traffic than the turntable forum. This is why we put it on top. Right now it has 20 viewers to 18. Earlier today the gap was even wider.
So if you are an analog guy pumping your chest by now, better go and create some threads in the turntable section to get more traffic.
One idea that surfaced earlier was how to do a state-of-the-art LP system for a few thousand dollars.
Stimulating proposition. Digital recording and reproduction are quite excellent (my digital preference is DSD; however, it's my understanding DSD is a concern in post production). In a sense, I am format agnostic from the perspective that I would like to hear the recording reproduced in the format it was recorded. So, if recorded in analog, then reproduction in analog (my analog preference is reel-to-reel tape). If recorded digitally, or should digitization occur anywhere prior to reaching the consumer, then reproduction in digital.
Indeed. The DAC/Digital forum routinely has higher traffic than the turntable forum. This is why we put it on top. Right now it has 20 viewers to 18. Earlier today the gap was even wider.
So if you are an analog guy pumping your chest by now, better go and create some threads in the turntable section to get more traffic.
I was going to say that has a lot to do with current content. While the analog guys are happily listening away the digital guys are here creating bandwidth!
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garylkoh
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Bruce B
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I'm pretty much format agnostic. I probably listen more to digital, only because it's more convenient.
My vinyl, tape and digital definitely sound different.
My vinyl, tape and digital definitely sound different.
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A little bit of web-speak such as IMO, IMHO. or the casual "I think" would help... You state your points of view in almost absolute fashion. They ain't so. They're just your opinions. I tend to give more weight to the opinion of those who are actually doing the actual works like Bruce B .. I would also assume that the "profound differences"were when everybody were heard when in full knowledge of what format was playing?
Frantz, when you are writing, those things are understood. The opinions are always of the writer and don't need clarification. That's why poor writers begin everything with I, I ,I, I... Drove me crazy editing.
We've debated testing before and that's the topic for another thread.
And actually Bruce agreed with my assessment of his DSD vs tape assessment from one of the shows in a thread a long time ago. In that case, the three areas where DSD deviated the most from the tape were in the upper octaves, loss of information and flat images. Here there's no argument about preference, the DSD copy should be a mirror image of the tape.
We've debated testing before and that's the topic for another thread.
And actually Bruce agreed with my assessment of his DSD vs tape assessment from one of the shows in a thread a long time ago. In that case, the three areas where DSD deviated the most from the tape were in the upper octaves, loss of information and flat images. Here there's no argument about preference, the DSD copy should be a mirror image of the tape.
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