Streaming Is To Audio What Red Plastic Cups Are To Wine

@antigrunge2 wrote:

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?

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.

So what is added to the master other than distortiin in your mind?

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.

@antigrunge2 

So what is added to the master other than distortiin in your mind?

If you look back to my previous posts, you will see it may well be a case of less noise and distortion rather more.

https://pmamagazine.org/3-reasons-vinyl-sounds-better-than-digital-fact-based/