USA Today: Music lovers pursue technologies to return to high fidelity Options

[jamesbaud]

http://m.usatoday.com/article/tech/52963362

I thought this was interesting.

[kraut]

So, it's not article worth of reading, then?

No, not when reading obvious bull like:

Digital recordings, on the other hand, are captured by computers, which record only certain slices of sound at split-second intervals that are then encoded into computer language. All those 1's and 0's end up representing a numeric interpretation of sound.

I have - maybe most of those here have done so too - compared records in AB with CD, and the sound quality was at best indistinguishable, at worst noticeable (not in favour of the LP) because of the increased noise of the lp between tracks.

Vinyl is the most faithful medium, with no compression or translation of music.

The idiot writing the article doesn't even have the foggiest about the RIAA compression curve.

This post has been edited by kraut: Feb 5 2012, 19:55

[C.R.Helmrich]

No, not when reading obvious bull like:

Digital recordings, on the other hand, are captured by computers, which record only certain slices of sound at split-second intervals that are then encoded into computer language. All those 1's and 0's end up representing a numeric interpretation of sound.

Uh, if you call an A/D converter a computer, what's so wrong about this statement?

Not everything in this article is bull, but there are dozens of dubious "facts" without any sources cited/referenced.

Speedskater: I seriously doubt it. From my experience, when done correctly, you should hear only shaped noise, and it should be impossible {Edit: or at low bit-rates, difficult} to identify the fundamental chords / pitch. Here it's easy to hear, so either gain or time alignment - or both - are a little bit off. Anyway, yet another wowdifferencesignaljusthearwhatsmissing!

Chris

This post has been edited by C.R.Helmrich: Feb 5 2012, 21:51