Vinyl Records

I play vinyl. Analog vinyl and not digital. But on a high end stereo in the 10k range you have to. And believe me there's no comparison

helenS · 36-40, F

It's really easy to emulate vinyl records using digital equipment, and appropriate digital filters. According to Nyquist's theorem, a 44kHz digital sampling rate is sufficient to record anything you can hear. Then we have to apply some high-frequency filter bands to take the poor reproduction of sound using vinyl into account. 😏

Millerdog · 56-60, M

@ElwoodBlues the music you are listening to is so distorted you have no idea. Often those loud lead guitars are actually a few guitars blended. Neil Young is a master at doing this. Your D/A which converts it back to analog loses this. But on a department store quality stereo you can never hear it

ElwoodBlues · M

@Millerdog For good audio imaging you want "linear phase" throughout your audio chain. Transistors excel at this. Power output tubes need output transformers and with output transformers, linear phase is harder to achieve. If you recall an old high end brand called PhaseLinear, they were selling linear phase amplifiers. Of course speakers with crossovers do crazy things with phase, so maybe it doesn't matter so much.