There are two type of posters in audio forums; the ones who have an opinion, and the ones who criticize other's opinion.
It's the way this world works so it's all very fine...the doers and the un-doers. Lol, what do you really know that we don't?
You two guys come up as two audio gurus above the world; as you can solve all audio matters and only you.
It makes me laugh because your expertise is mainly criticize others.
You give more importance in criticizing others than exploring your own belly button. Lol, your timing is totally off; you sound like a broken record with the needle stuck in the worst album's groove with that annoying repetitive and boring sameness.
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Ok, back to the topic, after giving back your fair dues. Respectfully.
* Early this morning I was reading somewhere that vinyl's main superior advantage is "Warmth".
I agree with that. Analog signal transmission is smoother, more time relaxing, easier on the human nervous system.
Digital can be nice too, but most digital music recordings are crap. When compressed and digitally manipulated the music loses its main essence; its natural timing curve. The digital data is restricted, discarded, full of sharp edges, unnatural, incoherent, and out of touch with natural timing.
With vinyl spinning on a well speed adjusted TT, the music is in sync (good timing) with the master LP as recorded by the recording music engineer.
I give you an example: Do you like the music band
Yes? Play any album of their repertoire from the LPs and the CDs and you'll notice the better impact and timing from the analog vinyls. I only give you one example, but there are many more;
Cat Stevens, Shawn Phillips, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, John Mayall, Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, etc. ...The music simply flows warmer because the timing is right with all the pieces together for a smoother and deeper music listening experience.
Don't get me wrong, I love digital for the convenience of DSP room manipulation, and bass management, and multichannel exaltation, and fast classical movements, and cellos and pianos and acoustic bass. It's perfect for digital high resolution loudspeakers and headphones.
On a CD you have pits/craters and spaces between. In the spaces between you have emptiness, a time correction zone, like a buffer zone so that the digital reader can interpret the missing spaces and fill them with virtual note's pieces. That virtual timing extrapolation is quasi immeasurable (our measuring tools are simply not up to it, they were designed with the knowledge of the time, not our times anymore).
We talk about the advantages on analog vinyl, and we don't even have the proper measuring tools to correlate what's there and what's missing in digital recordings in direct relation with the human brain. We are still uncertain of this audio world we like as a hobby and our passion for music to the extent of thinking that we know it all.
It is funny, because we are so convinced that we are right and others are wrong that science itself is losing its true role and its identity's definition.
I said it before, and I repeat it now: We have measured less than 1% of all there is to be measured in analog and digital music reproduction.
The audio scientists have not yet explore all the variables and permutations between music recordings, analog and digital, audio gear and the human hearing.
Krab and AJ you seem to know more than anyone else, but what you hear and read is not registering the same in all human's brain equally.
So if you think that you are so smart, why not share positively your intelligence by advancement instead of criticizing freely without any support but your own personal critic towards your peers as to satisfy your egos. Lol, you guys need to step into the real meaning of audio science before criticizing others and your comments about drugs and bollocks. That's the easy route of the un-doers; switch positions...explore the higher avenues of our world.
It doesn't diminish your other qualities, but it does affect your narrower vision from your overly superiority complex.
Take the time...to be in sync. Lol, you both are just too funny; we need people like you too to see how some visions are affected.
C'mon, I think you can do it if you put some positive effort into it, or can't you.