Dover,
"There is no such thing as absolute speed. Speed is relative."
That is incorrect. For a turntable, 33 1/3, 45 RPM is absolutely the correct speed.
How it's measured is another story.
"The timeline only measures the arrival of a single point on the platter at the same place at each time. It does not measure what happens in between."
That was my point, commonly referred to as absolute speed vs. wow and flutter.
"Analogue wow and flutter is similar to digital jitter. Testing of digital systems as regards temporal errors and the effect on sound quality has yielded the following -"
Analog wow and flutter is very different from digital jitter. Your analogy is a bad one. Because of the continuous nature of analog, very small amounts of W/F are much less noticeable. Not so with digital. Because the music is chopped up and regurgitated back to analog, any jitter is more prominent, noticeable. This is especially true with harmonics and tonality.
Playing records is harder, more expensive, and a PIA compared to digital. Then why the resurgence, because it's cool? I don't think so.
It's more fun because it sounds better.
Regards,
"There is no such thing as absolute speed. Speed is relative."
That is incorrect. For a turntable, 33 1/3, 45 RPM is absolutely the correct speed.
How it's measured is another story.
"The timeline only measures the arrival of a single point on the platter at the same place at each time. It does not measure what happens in between."
That was my point, commonly referred to as absolute speed vs. wow and flutter.
"Analogue wow and flutter is similar to digital jitter. Testing of digital systems as regards temporal errors and the effect on sound quality has yielded the following -"
Analog wow and flutter is very different from digital jitter. Your analogy is a bad one. Because of the continuous nature of analog, very small amounts of W/F are much less noticeable. Not so with digital. Because the music is chopped up and regurgitated back to analog, any jitter is more prominent, noticeable. This is especially true with harmonics and tonality.
Playing records is harder, more expensive, and a PIA compared to digital. Then why the resurgence, because it's cool? I don't think so.
It's more fun because it sounds better.
Regards,