Board:   [DoveNet] Pro-Audio Discussion
Subject: Re: Tape deck
From:    Vk3jed
Date:    Thu Apr 23, 2020 12:48

@VIA: FREEWAY
-=> On 04-22-20 12:30, Digital Man wrote to calcmandan <=-

 DM> With vinyl, you had "groove echo" (even on a brand new LP), which I
 DM> don't miss... so yeah, I'm the digital man for a reason. :-)

Not to mention that IMD on LPs was several _percent_ - a spec that was never
mentioned in stylus/cartridge specs. ;)  Vinyl was good in its day, but I
didn't need to be convinced to switch to digital, I more had to wait for
digital to catch up with where my thinking was at.  Digital has been criticised
for sounding "harsh", but that issue can be avoided nowadays.  Higher sampling
rates (e.g. 96k or 192k) and better processing (e.g. doing the really sharp
filtering in DSP) will help a lot.

Some people say that "LPs sound better" or that "valve amps have a nice warm
sound".  This is likely even harmonic distortion, which can sound pleasing to
the ear.  And the beauty of digital is if you really want these things, DSP can
add them in for you. :)

These days, it sucks that so much music is available with only lossy
compression.  I prefer to have a lossless copy (FLAC, etc) to start with.

Yep, I'm definitely a digitap person myself. :)


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