29-02-2004, 08:46 PM
Quote:Originally posted by spam
The sample rate of modern CD players allows them to play frequencies well outside human hearing...so the argument would hold true that cd sound can be "felt" too. Earlier models may not have sounded as good but if you listen to somebody like Eric Clapton playing Layla on a DDD recording you are going to hear clarity probably impossible with a stylus,
The same arguments are heard for valve vs transistor amplifiers,
Flat sound or filtered.....each to their own...what sounds good for one does not necessarily hold good for another. What location is good for one system is not good for another.....even the characteristics of the human ear vary from person to person so it really boils down to a matter of personal taste and most people will not be able to hear the difference between a £200 and a £1000 turntable.
Spam go compare an vinyl copy of an album playing against a DDD one and you will hear - unless tonedeaf - that the DDD copy sounds cold, flat and lifeless. CD's inferior sound quality in comparison to vinyl has been proven time and time again in listening tests using real ears! Scientific measurement will never be a good marker of sound quality. However with the new formats of SACD and DVD-A the sound quality is comparable with vinyl unlike CD. Over the next five years these formats will become standard and CD as we know it will die out.
Spam do yourself a favour and go into a hi-fi shop with a cheap £200 turntable and compare it to a decent Linn, Rega, Pro-jekt or Roksan and you will hear the difference in quality that a good turntable, arm and cartridge make. The amount of information that is retrieved from the grooves is amazing.