Originally Posted by
Boatdesigner
"...As for albums sounding better than CD's, not to my ears! I have 100's of albums and a good turntable, there is no sound that can be produced by an album that can't also be reproduced by a CD. The opposite is true though as CD's have a larger dynamic range. The big problem is that so many CD's are engineered and mixed by people with less talent than the people who mixed the albums in the past. Pops and clicks aren't warmth to my ear.""
Again this is offtopic in a sense, but at the end you'll see it's not (how's that for the most lousy opening paragraph of all time ?) : Christian Yvon (Goldmund, Apertura... may he forgive me for naming him, amongst his clients are people who govern places in America beginning with Cal and other such well off guys) clearly demonstrated to me that binary (digital) will not reproduce the trebles like a vinyl. On a oscillograph, or whatever the thing is called, you can clearly see a square tip on the high treble, whereas you have a real triangle on vinyl, or any other analog source. The binary sound is not "true". Then there is the MP3 thing: partly a cutoff of the frequencies supposedly not heard by the human ear. Extensive double blind testing showed that all , even the tone deaf heard a richer sound on non MP3, or to be more precise, non-cutoff. Pure logic within our limited comprehension of sound perception says this is impossible. So what is hapening is that we are not just hearing music, but feeling it too, for what is sound but air pressure ? This needs to be mitigated by the fact that most recordings are not neutral, so the billion dollar search for the perfectly neutral system is futile, not counting that different individuals will have a different "ear". Anyway, the Acid test of a stereo system is a prolonged, very fast sequence at the very right of the piano keyboard. Most systems will fail this test most horribly.
The parallel with vintage steel bikes ? Harmonics play a great part in the rider's perception of what a bike "feels" like, and with steel there is a heck of a lot of vibrations and harmonics of all lengths going on, and those vibes affect as said what you feel, but also how the bike performs for you. Making a bike too rigid as in carbon, not counting the damping effect of the medium (araldite basically), makes for a poor ride. So maybe the hippies were right about "vibes" .
Anybody doesn't agree with me can nominate me for an honorary phd in aggravated bs., because this "demonstration" suffers no possible argument, the only contradiction can be deliberate misunderstanding
