Vinyl records are primarily made from Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), a durable thermoplastic polymer, often combined with Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA) for flexibility. Digital is ones and zeros stored on typically cheaper CD’s or disk drives Getting back to the top of this post; it’s the micro bits of imperfections that’s so dang pleasing to hear. Ironically with vinyl some noise is Aok where as digital noise is the enemy. Sadly the price of vinyl and all the fixings is a barrier. |
Thank you. If this is true, it explains a lot, such as why digitised vinyl still sounds good like vinyl. I like it. If anybody ever comes up with a way to add that noise to digital files, they would be on a winner. |
@newton_john (Hi to Olivia)
True DAT y'alls* *As they in NOLA (happy childhood days and still have plenty of lifetime down home time there..... but No Cal is where I hang my hat) |
My experience with audiophile LPs has been different from yours. I bought a lot of the first and second generation MFSL half-speed mastered LPs and various other audiophile LPs, and usually they are equal or superior to any digital counterpart, and much better than the conventional vinyl releases. (If you look at my Virtual System you will see that both my vinyl and digital rigs are quite good; I think they are comparable in quality.) Some must agree with the superiority of the older MFSL LPs, as last year I sold an unopened copy of Pink Floyd's Meddle LP for $1100! I am wary about buying new vinyl, audiophile or not. I've bought one newer MoFi LP (Santana's Abraxas), and even though that comes from a digital master (IIRC), it still sounds great. I'm more inclined now to buy SACDs, and have configured my digital rig so it will play the DSD stream, which Paul McGowan of PS Audio considers the best-sounding audio medium available. Very high-res digital streams can often equal or surpass vinyl, even some audiophile releases. I like the larger size of an LP jacket, so print is more readable, but that is far less important to me than the sound quality. |
