Soon, maybe: https://riotfest.org/2018/04/high-definition-vinyl/
One thing strikes me when I look at the the 'perfect fit' image: don't you need some gap to allow dust and dirt to squish past the needle?
Exactly, and out of the groove.Just ride-up-over it.
I agree, but it's an argument that has long been dismissed by people such as Michael Fremer who, as I recall, sees 'vinylification' (my word) as a real thing that, through subtle mechanisms that can't be duplicated electronically, adds soul to digital audio and rids it of its artificial 'sheen'.I know next to nothing about vinyl, but I thought the point was that it was pure analog media with an immeasurable resolution. Doesn’t transitioning to digital then back to vinyl eliminate that aspect? Why not just play the high resolution digital file that they’ve gone and recorded onto the vinyl? I don’t see the point. It’s no longer an analog medium, it’s digital transcribed onto analog... which is just digital with the added effect of eventual analog wear and tear,
...unless I’m missing or misinterpreting something? Is that no longer why people buy vinyl?
No analog medium has as much resolution as current digital because of its high noise level, LPs are equivalent of around 11-bit digital resolution (though there isn't a precise figure since manufacturing and mastering has an effect) and reel-to reel tapes not much better unless Dolby noise reduction has been used.I know next to nothing about vinyl, but I thought the point was that it was pure analog media with an immeasurable resolution. Doesn’t transitioning to digital then back to vinyl eliminate that aspect? Why not just play the high resolution digital file that they’ve gone and recorded onto the vinyl? I don’t see the point. It’s no longer an analog medium, it’s digital transcribed onto analog... which is just digital with the added effect of eventual analog wear and tear,
...unless I’m missing or misinterpreting something? Is that no longer why people buy vinyl?
This won't work in practice. Even the system we have now is very, very sensitive to alignment and manufacturing accuracy. There is zero chance of manufacturing a working system like this in quantity.
This won't work in practice. Even the system we have now is very, very sensitive to alignment and manufacturing accuracy. There is zero chance of manufacturing a working system like this in quantity.
It reminds me of academics getting excited about cycloidal gears 50 years ago. Their theoretical load carrying capacity was way more than treaked involute (the standard gear tooth) but it relied on the greater contact area to achieve the potential and that was neither manufacturable to the accuracy needed nor would work when load deflections were accounted for.
Do you know how FM compares to the digital streams for these broadcasts? I don't have a FM tuner to compare.Some of the finest sound I enjoy at home is FM BBC radio 3 live broadcasts
I've long been surprised that someone hasn't built a box that takes a digital signal and puts it through some physical/analog stage that mimics the whole vinyl production and replay process, that produces a signal that's ready for a phono stage input. Something like a long cantilever with a cutting head at one end, and a pickup at the other.'vinylification' (my word) as a real thing that, through subtle mechanisms that can't be duplicated electronically
I did my apprenticeship at a gear manufacturer (David Brown Gear Industries) including a summer 1970 exchange at the Falk Gera Corp in Milwaukee.You have just rekindled my Applied Mechanics subject nightmare - complex gear design. Arrrgh.
I think it was the ME faculty's revenge for having Ohms Law included in their curriculum.
I have never checked, I listen to enjoy the music and once it is pleasurable I stop dicking about. FM works fine here whereas streaming takes more boxes and is by no means a fixed standard, so I rarely bother with it. My Devialet Phantoms can run digital radio fairly simply but I don't use them often for music, more the tv.Do you know how FM compares to the digital streams for these broadcasts? I don't have a FM tuner to compare.
Frank your making my brain hurt again. I'm too old and retired to try and wrap my thought pattern around stuff like that. This crap is burning up the few working cells I still have in reserve.It reminds me of academics getting excited about cycloidal gears 50 years ago.