Skeptoid: Digital vs Vinyl, Podcast casts its skeptical eye on digital audio Options

[rick.hughes]

Skeptoid: Digital vs Vinyl

[hlloyge]

I doubt he will challenge the theoretical limitations of the vinyl format.

Aren't those limits practical limits, not just theoretical? S/N, crackling, wow&flutter...?

[Woodinville]

I doubt he will challenge the theoretical limitations of the vinyl format.

Aren't those limits practical limits, not just theoretical? S/N, crackling, wow&flutter...?

There is a theoretical limit to surface noise elimination on vinyl. It's not insubstantial, either.

[knutinh]

There is a theoretical limit to surface noise elimination on vinyl. It's not insubstantial, either.

Assuming that cost and impractical conditions does not pose theoretical limits, what is this based on?

If I was to make a "vinyl" record out of any concievable material, to be played back in strictly specified lab conditions, I would expect that the granularity (and mechanical "memory") of the atomic structure of that record to be the most fundamental limit?

I think that this presentation had some interesting background information on analog media degradation, funky italian-english aside:
http://www-dsp.elet.polimi.it/ispg/images/...tion_slides.pdf