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

[rick.hughes]

Skeptoid: Digital vs Vinyl

[Woodinville]

Just want to point out that the biggest component of wow is decentering, and that will be consistent from play to play.

Having said that, playing vinyl twice inside of a short period of time is bad for the vinyl and you will not get the same signal off the record.

[Arnold B. Kruege...]

Just want to point out that the biggest component of wow is decentering, and that will be consistent from play to play.

Agreed, which leads to the obvious question:

Since decentering is often the largest source of wow, and decentering is easy enough to reduce significantly by fairly simple mechanical means, why aren't all the vinylphiles doing that?

BTW, after decentering, its probably warps and warp wow induced by the tone arm that comes next.

Then there is the FM distortion caused by the interaction of bass and offset angled tone arms (IOW not straight line).

Same question.

Having said that, playing vinyl twice inside of a short period of time is bad for the vinyl and you will not get the same signal off the record.

Agreed, but again how many vinylphiles have transcribed their records to digital to eliminate that effect? Probably a lot more LPs are transcribed for other reasons, many not even audible per se but rather related to convenience.