quoted 1 line a cd, which is (given good mastering) an exact digital copy> > a cd, which is (given good mastering) an exact digital copy
[of a DAT]
quoted 3 lines There you said it "DIGITAL". All cut up into millions of little> There you said it "DIGITAL". All cut up into millions of little
> bits and jammed back together, not one smooth sound curve.
> It samples at 44 thousand.1 times per second....
well this isn't exactly accurate but i know what you mean. by the way you
misunderstood me - i was making the point on the basis that the master tape
is on DAT (which almost all recordings are made onto). so there is no point
telling anyone that vinyl sounds better than cd for the vast majority of
recordings because the cd is (or should be) an identical copy of the DAT
master, down to the last bit. and of course i take sounding 'better' to
mean sounding as close to the original as possible.
but i still love vinyl..
quoted 1 line If you go above clip in digital you get a terrible distortion> If you go above clip in digital you get a terrible distortion
this is not always the case, in moderate clipping the waves are simply
squared off, not bounced from 32768 to -32768
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