Vinyl and Digital and the AES
There is a current puzzle in audio since the introduction of CD. While the measurements of digital are in many cases an order of magnitude better than vinyl (and audio Skeptics are fond of gleefully pointing this out), yet in the end, vinyl tends to sound more natural and more real most of the time (which subjectivist use to rub the Skeptics nose in it). While we don't need to rehash the millions of words lost in the ongoing argument, I think it is easily summarized by three statements below: The audio Skeptics have made a basic assumption that digital audio reproduction is essentially perfect, and have stubbornly maintained this idea The audio Subjectivists have not adequately defined high resolution well enough to inform study. Neither Skeptics nor Subjectivists have been able to acknowledge that our understanding of sound perception is incomplete and its study and revisions are ongoing. This is either through ignorance or stubbornness. In a perusal ...