New rule

[gfish]

No one is allowed to have an opinion on vinyl vs. digital unless they have at least a basic understanding of the Shannon sampling theorem. Seriously, if you don't know what the Nyquist rate is, shut the hell up.

Note: There are still valid arguments to be had in this domain. They just don't include the phrase 'warmth of analog' at any point.

Comments

[solarbird]

The choice of delivery disc format isn't ever the issue.
nnnnnnnnno. Well, okay, not so much anymore. But the quality of low-pass filter needed to handle the 44.1khz sample-rate tone exclusion was an issue in a lot of early digital equipment. If you wanted the effects of the filter really, seriously, omg o-w-t out of the audio spectrum, that took a little time for people to get right. And that was integral to the format since it was a problem that had to be solved across all players, even if it's not technically on the disc itself.

(I am of course dealing only with current formats and not old ones like the original (pre-revision) ATRAC, and things like ATRAC3LP4, which is, um, yeah. But there were releases in original-ATRAC and they were not very tasty.)

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

Right. That's a production and/or mastering issue. :-)

[solarbird]

Sure, but it's also on the reproduction side. (Yes, I know, it's inaudible to the ear, but the amp still has to deal with it, or rather, shouldn't have to deal with it, so it needs to get filtered out before it's handed to the power amp.)

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

Right, and that's a playback equipment issue.