01-03-2004, 09:16 PM
Quote:Originally posted by spam
Not at all....
Scientifically, CD's are superior, so is the retrieval system. You state that vinyl has been proven to be better but your results are unscientific...they are the subjective views of a number of people, all with different hearing properties, probably listening in different environments on different systems with little or no chance of repeatability. Technically speaking with repeatable benchmarks and standards the digital signal is far better...purely because it will not suffer from analogue imperfections, that is why everything is moving over to digital as things like S/N ratio, noise, interference. Sadly I think the argument is similar to the old one that arose with the advent of the transistor...the old guard swore blind that valve sound was better....to their ears maybe....but technlogically not.
The next point I have to make is that you are basing your comparison on equipment that costs the price of a car. Yes anybody that has money to throw around can get excellent results from vinyl, whereas Joe Bloggs can spend a few hundred and get excellent sound. Should you compare top of the range digital equipment then you will not tell the difference.
Spam here is a scientific question for you? Do you listen to music with scientific measuring instruments or with your ears? At the end of the day no matter how good specs might look it is the way something sounds to the ear that decides its clarity and quality. No scientific measuring device can tell you what is good or not in terms of sound quality . Only your own ears can. Go take alisten yourself to a vinyl based system costing around £1000 and a CD based one and you will hear the difference in quality. Ditto on a £500 system. Even into stratospheric prices CD is still the poorer software medium. HAve you ever listened to players by companies like Krell or Jeff Rowland or Linn? Your experience of decent quality vinyl equipment is obviously as limited as mine is of amateur radio equipment. Once you have listened to the equipment then come back and tell me that vinyl is the poor relative.