Beats me: how can a digitally recorded piece of music sound better when cut into vinyl sound better on a record player rather than just playing the digital master through a decent digital chain? Voodoo?
Streaming Is To Audio What Red Plastic Cups Are To Wine
Unpacking and going through my vinyl collection, it occurs to me that vinyl is it, whereas streaming is Audio’s red plastic cup.
The best wines taste low-shelf in the red plastic cup. Yes, the red plastic cup is cheap and convenient, just like streaming. Wine should feel the same regardless of the vessel - it’s the same wine - but it does not. So should music - but it does not. Streamed music may sound (nearly) as good as vinyl, but it feels... disposable. Vinyl does not. Vinyl is the thing. Vinyl is it! Just my opinion, of course.
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The transduction round-trip the signal takes from digital master to engraved groove in a physical vinyl platter to analog signal output of a phono cartridge is certain to impart differences on the end sound, I'm sure you'll agree. Whether the end sound is improved as a result is solely a matter of taste.
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That whole absolutism about every sound difference being distortion is just ridiculous ASR garbage. In real life, the sound is altered at every step of the process. Microphones, they alter the sound. Drugs the recording engineer took, they alter the sound. Whether the mastering engineer rushed it because he hoped to get laid later that night alters the sound, but would you call that distortion? The bottom line is, the only way you’ll ever hear the singer’s voice as it sounded on the night of the performance is if you were there in the room on the night of the performance. And yet, it would have sounded very different whether you sat in 4C or 28AF. Therefore, we should consider ourselves lucky enough when a system’s end sound is pleasing to our ears.
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