(02-08-2018, 07:24 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(02-07-2018, 08:40 PM)hb1148 Wrote: I still like vinyl records. Typically I buy new LPs 2 or 3 times a year. They *do* sound better than CDs as a general rule, especially on high quality equipment but digital has the potential to be much better. The "warmth" we lovers of vinyl LPs generally attribute to our analog audio is less about the LPs we play and more about the lower quality standard of the CDDA format itself (16 bits and 44.1 kilo-samples) which lends a harshness to the playbook no matter how good the DAC is. Newer digital audio formats can equal or exceed the warmth and wide open sound stage of vinyl. But no matter, when it comes down to it, there's nothing like listening to "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Who's Next" or "Rumours" on the old turntable.

I agree digital has the potential to sound as good as vinyl.   It just needs a sampling rate that is more than what your ears can detect.   Sort of like super high definition TV, which is getting so good that it's starting to resemble actual reality.  It's just using more data, and you have to stand closer and closer to detect the pixels.

That's basically the ongoing argument in the guitar community. Processors have become fast enough to sample analog signals enough to make guitar amplification modeling convincing. Some swear they can't tell the difference, others turn their nose up at anything that's not a tube amp or analog pedal. I'm in the middle. I still use a tube amp and analog pedals for everything except delay and reverb. If had to plug my guitar straight into a laptop, I'd just quit playing. But that's probably due more to being used to what I grew up with. Some of that modeling software sounds fantastic to me. But then again, I'm aware that my ears aren't what they used to be.

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