Elephantears
Trunkated Aesthete
So what's your take on Kissin's Schubert 960, Basil? Seems to be bring up some quite divided reactions.
(This is a medium non-specific question.)
(This is a medium non-specific question.)
So what's your take on Kissin's Schubert 960, Basil? Seems to be bring up some quite divided reactions.
(This is a medium non-specific question.)
The sound of hammer hitting nail reverberates through the thread...
This test shows that (1) the two media seem to have different distortion signatures, with CD showing much more 3nd harmonic than 2st harmonic, and (2) the noise floor is adequately low in both mediums.
No. You simply prefer the euphonic distortion of vinyl to the more accurate but less pleasing (to you) sound of a CD
Distortion is the difference between input and output (excluding overall amplitude, obviously). A violin, any violin, does not distort, it merely possesses its own sonic signature. Some might regard all violins as unlistenable, but they are not distorted - they are violins and that is what they sound like.
You've missed the point of my post, but even so, your point depends on what we define as 'input'. If we define input as the sound produced by the oscillating violin string, then all that harmonic resonance that the body does is then distortion, producing the 'timbre'. Record players, loudspeakers, and even CD players, have timbre too. My point was that any combination of harmonic distortions produces more or less bearable timbre. Less distortion on a graph doesn't always mean a device is pleasant to hear. Certain kinds of timbre are believable, whereas others can seem very artificial. A dose of 2nd harmonic without any 1st harmonic might fall into the artificial category of timbres.
At any rate, the linked article is not the conclusive evidence of superior perceptual accuracy that it is supposed to be.
Dude, stop digging...
Hehe - well there's got to be some reason why putting a record on is such a relief after listening to digital.
I'm sure there is, but I think it's the same reason Arthur Dent likes tea.
I'm sure there is, but I think it's the same reason Arthur Dent likes tea.
Hehe - well there's got to be some reason why putting a record on is such a relief after listening to digital. People on this thread seem to be suggesting that a DAC through a fuzzbox would make us old-timers happy. Sometimes I doubt whether some commenters have even heard a good turntable. Don't get me wrong, I buy and listen to digital, but it is like eating a Mars bar with the wrapper on. Then we get graphs and figures and all kindsa spec-flexing, but what matters is the spellbinding.
A lot of people like tea, and a lot of people like music, but apart from that there is precious little connection in your analogy.
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Done!
Tony.
(slacking at work, obviously)
I see you still left a space before the question mark though
Oddly enough I've seen many thread titles here with appalling spelling and/or grammar and assumed that it wasn't the "done thing" to complain.I see you still left a space before the question mark though