I've probably heard over 20 vinyl setups and none were as good as the digital versions of the files. I feel this is a scapegoat for criticisms, you can just toss that out for basically anything here. I think the reality is vinyl has limitations and people can hear those limitations and it bothers them.
Streaming services processing of audio files is pretty well known for each service, aside from lossy file compression, the only other thing they do is replaygain which you can turn off anyways, that doesn't affect the sound of the content in any way. Sounds more like old man yelling at clouds than legit criticism.
I still very much think it's weird that people care this much about the medium the music is on lol. Talk about losing the plot.
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Or they are really just more lazy, and use it as an excuse?
Or they want to signal that they are hip using records, or not to be fooled by using digital?
In reality it was not a bunch of benevolent people on the board of Sony etc that were discussing the beauty of sound, it was that media can be transmitted without lifting a finger. And it can be digitally encrypted.
Other than the voyager spacecraft, not space craft have LPs.
And few are using analogue transmission.
Also most all are using digital.
So state of the art in communication systems is digital.
With the LP one has a physical thing that does not need to be sent, and encrypted.
It is only sent from the shelf to the platter.
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Go onto a-gon. They are threads where they bash Amir for not listening, and go on and on about how every DAC has its own unique sound.
WFT? How can “perfect” digital representation result in 1000 flavours of DACS?
Then there are the snake oil purveyors who time and again come up with things like, “You need to spend and equal amount on the digital side.”
And on and on and on about electrical noise being such an effect to digital systems, and then power cords, and conditioners “up the wazoo” by snake oil purveyors and they clergy of the faithful.
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The Mrs had me go through a bunch of electronics yesterday to sell, donate, trash.
CD and DVD players with broken transports etc.
VHS players that do not work, etc.
With streaming, I guess people in Russia are not listening to services.
Their Vinyl and CDs should be working.
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The cartridge is wildly different than a DAC; in that it is a transducer.
Most of the electronics in the middle is decent, and the other transducer (the speaker) is the other source for difficult work to be happening.
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And… people seem emotionally wedded to the lunchbox, more that the lunch inside of it.