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Poll Question: What sound reproduction do you prefer?
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    Posted: April 18 2006 at 12:40

I choose analog - It's warm and very detailed and accurate.

Digital  - is cold and looses a lot of fine detail.
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Digital all the way. It's not at all cold and no audible detail is lost - a little bit is lost when using the 16bit/44.1khz CD audio standard, but even then the difference is difficult to hear on standard (read: not ultra high end) equipment. And with the SACD I dare say that there is no difference - and indeed listening tests show that people cannot tell analog from SACD.



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I love playing my vinyl LP's for several reasons; tactile feel, size, album covers, sound, memories, etc. but I cannot deny the 'sound' of the new remasters that are coming out now - for example 70's Gentle Giant, Hackett, VDGG, Yes have vastly improved sound, IMO.

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Points: 4702 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2006 at 12:59

Was it my post in the 'Problems' poll that prompted the start of this thread?

Anyway, I choose digilog, although anatal is good too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2006 at 13:06

SACD is great and it does come pretty close to analog but it yet still has a BIT feeling like a digital TV pix-elating.

It is easier to see improvements form 16 bit to 28bit to 64 bit video graphics.

But digital works the same way with muisc. Earlier 8/16 Bit CD's sound bad the newer 24bit sounds better but not close enough to analog and do have to say i have a very good sound system.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2006 at 13:07
Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Was it my post in the 'Problems' poll that prompted the start of this thread?

Anyway, I choose digilog, although anatal is good too.

 

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Digital is more convienient. But remember...digital is like a million tiny pictures of analog...all it does is basically emulate..I dont particularly like the sound. It looses the atmosphere and character of analog recordings. I am going to school for audio technology and i have found out a lot of people are going back to analog...IT just has more creative possibilities. But it is all the possibilities that make analog a pain in the ass. I choose analog though..."nothing worthwhile is achieved suddenly" 
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For me, since I have almost super-human hearing, I can pick out little tiny details in music most people cannot.

Having established this, I would like to tell you all that if you're listening exclusively to digital recordings you're missing out on the music in a BIG way. If vinyls were more convenient and tracks could be lined up like my SACD/DTS collection I would use vinyl and nothing else.

But alas, quadraphonic vinyls are impossible to find nowadays, so for now I stick to vinyl and the DTS format.
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Can someone please explain to me what analog means? What am I missing out on if I only listen to digital?

 



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Originally posted by DeepPhreeze DeepPhreeze wrote:

For me, since I have almost super-human hearing, I can pick out little tiny details in music most people cannot.

Having established this, I would like to tell you all that if you're listening exclusively to digital recordings you're missing out on the music in a BIG way. If vinyls were more convenient and tracks could be lined up like my SACD/DTS collection I would use vinyl and nothing else.

But alas, quadraphonic vinyls are impossible to find nowadays, so for now I stick to vinyl and the DTS format.

Let's be glad that - as you admit - most people cannot pick out these details like you can, and therefore can be perfectly happy with digital.
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To tell you the truth I can't tell the difference.
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Originally posted by Rust Rust wrote:

Can someone please explain to me what analog means? What am I missing out on if I only listen to digital?

 

Your voice is analog (sound waves). Your computer is digital (1's and 0's). CD's are, as noted above, a series of pictures of the analog signal. Digital must be turned back into analog for you to be able to hear it. Vinyl records were analog. CD's are digital.



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I agree, to me the arguement between analog and digital is pointless, both have advantages and disadvantages but the differences are very slight and inaudible to me. 
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This belong in the Polls section,NOT prog polls.


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Digital for the albums...
Analog for the keyboards...
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Originally posted by DeepPhreeze DeepPhreeze wrote:

For me, since I have almost super-human hearing, I can pick out little tiny details in music most people cannot.



Is there ANYthing you don't know or can't do?!?! *sheesh*

P.S. - My merely human ears find that digital recordings are more _accurate_, which sometimes isn't as pleasing to the human ear.




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Digital because of less distortion and more convenient disks. But vinyl "tastes" better, if you know what I mean
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ADAT tapes are absolutely perfect! The perfect mix between analog and digital.
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Originally posted by SirPsycho388 SirPsycho388 wrote:

ADAT tapes are absolutely perfect! The perfect mix between analog and digital.

ADAT tapes are 100% digital.
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