Why, oh why, does vinyl continue to blow away digital?
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Warner now owns the EMI catalog and they are releasing some of it (some really good some of it) on LP. So all is not lost!
And analogue has a giant head start over digital in terms of gear crush cache… digital lags perhaps most of all in the gear envy stakes. Both in engineering and operation analogue tends to be inherently a way sexier beast.
When you encounter the boxmaster he will put your things in boxes.
With regard to enmeshment ...
Iirc music is sound organized in a way that can be appealing to those who hear it. Music is always sound but sound is not always music.
I find it fairly common to enjoy particular sounds that make up music.The sound of a growly trombone, the spitty raspiness of a tenor sax, the rosiny draw of bow across string. There are moments when such strikes me -- moments of delight -- it's not all flow and synthesis la-dee-da. On the other hand, if I'm able to achieve a state of limbic or even near-limbic listening, sound and music become categories of which I'm unaware.
This is where a good Venn diagram would be handy… the distinction between sound appreciation and music appreciation is one I make warily because it’s so not straightforward to separate the perceptual modalities used in this. I love many sounds for sound’s sake and they can also be part of music appreciation… hence the enmeshed abstraction.
I do fundamentally believe I have changed over the years in where the balance in that focus is for me, but it’s hard enough to get your head around your own perceptual processes without trying to then see if that is a common theme for others. Everytime anyone claims that they have a complete understanding of how perception works an angel somewhere loses its wings.
With audiophiles you can get many Vain diagrams
Very true, but that doesn't affect me emotionally. Yet I can see how it affects others.
At the same time with analog the default is more to realism, so "upgrading" is less required if you get the records and the music. You don't have to beat the "did you hear that slightly more X" out of the next component. So while the analog exploration landscape is vast and fun, the satisfaction can be easily had with a wide variety of components if the system is right. So I kind of don't get it when people into analog are not into music. It is like being into cooking but into food, not caring for the taste.
Very true, too. Such a nice sight when listening in the dark.
Additionally, you can stabilise a tube amplfication circuit without negative feedback
So you don't know but you know?
You provide technical arguments to explain distortion of analog, then you answer that digital is not distortion-free, but don't explain why/how, and yet claim it is "more accurate"?
Thanks. The video sounds good (for a video), but I don't believe in evaluating analog versus digital on system videos. Listening to the Qobuz track on my headphones, everything sounds better than on a video, which is normal.
That angry cop who breaks in must be a digital guy. Or maybe it is Lagonda and just hates classical.
according to Wiki, Sony still owns EMI. I tried but failed to include the link, but if you search does Sony own EMI wiki should come up with a list of all their holdings. I believe that Sony will only release DSD copies of the master tapes to others and have no reason to believe that they will release music from any label they own that is not digitally sourced.
You have to understand that when it come to digital playback it matters at what stage and which format is used to discuss distortions so it is not quite as the distortions associated with analog playback.
Are you disputing that digital playback is more accurate than analog playback?
One thing that most have to understand and come to terms with is that Sony, as well as most other labels, archive their catalogs of music in digital format. Digital format is the only way to preserve the original quality. I know this from experience at the old Sony Classical Studios in New York. I have some of their proprietary in-house 18 bit - 48 Khz DASH digital tapes decks that they used for archiving their recordings. With the advent of DSD, Sony switched and started archiving their music in the highest quality format which is DSD. Sony archives are in DSD format.
Exactly. The records and the music. When I was younger and listening to (and playing) rock and some punk I somehow knew that eventually I would return to my classical roots -- an intuition if you will. I bought classic classical that I knew more from playing in orchestra and piano than I did from stereo. Not all my buys were top choices -- I didn't know what was possible yet from stereo -- but I did have some luck and today I feel good/lucky that I paid attention to my instincts. Even during my CD period I still bought records. Even if you don't have top equipment but think that you will someday have a better system, don't stop allocating for records and music. There is much more information now about what are good recordings.