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

[rick.hughes]

Skeptoid: Digital vs Vinyl

[kraut]

Where is the proof? Just claims pulled out of your behind?

My reply to an unproven assertion.

His response:

I'm simply citing the known facts. You claim otherwise, well, show us your evidence. Your claim is the extraordinary one, so you owe us extraordinary evidence.

Known? Where is the beef? Sounds very much like any audiophile statement I ever heard of. Where I did claim anything? I just asked for evidence and I have to supply evidence for a question? Any idea of scientific approach at all? Or how to treat requests - even impolite ones - for evidence? And on top playing the authority card? Any familiarity with skepticism?
Are you the pope of vinyl?

If, for instance, you bother to read the AES collections on vinyl, you will find what you seek.

Very arrogant and disingenuous, as almost all AES papers are behind a pay wall.

I am not sorry. I am an old grouch close to retirement and do not take to bull from whoever claims authority at face value any more. Show me the evidence and convince me, otherwise shut up.

I hardly ever play vinyl lately, relying on my server for playback, but I still do not accept unproven or undocumented claims from anybody about anything.
My experience in vinyl over 50 years have audible proven to me that records when well treated can play with only minor surface noise repeatedly for a long time; that is why I do not accept statements like the one I keep harping about with out supporting evidence.

This post has been edited by kraut: Apr 6 2012, 07:45