[KH]

On 1/21/2014 6:53 PM, ST wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 01:00:57 UTC+8, ScottW wrote:
On Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:19:45 AM UTC-8, ST wrote:
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I offer a counter and equally substantiated rebuttal to your argument.

Hogwash.

ScottW

That will do. I am sure I will convince myself that I need not pay attention to vinyl.


The last vinyl I played was in the 70s. Never bothered to keep any of them and always looked down those who preached that there's something magical in vinyl.

That did not make me to be closed mind about vinyl or tape. I often get invited to listen to the best of digital and vinyl and on the few occasions that I took part, I found vinyl was preferable (much to my dismay). But I thought it must be due to other factors until I saw the video and asked myself the question I had asked here.


Well, the point is that once leaving the amplifier, all signals are
analog. Whatever front end you use, your speakers are oblivious, and
the physics of sound transmission from speaker to ear - for any given
room and ear - are identical irrespective of whether the signal started
as analog or digital.

So unless I misread your post, you need to posit some mechanism whereby
the acoustic propagation from the speaker can change based on what front
end is used. I know of no such mechanism. Obviously the signal
reproduced by the speaker can be affected by distortions in the playback
medium, but the attenuation/transformation of the acoustic once leaving
the loudspeaker is identical.

So whatever "wigglyness" happens between the speaker and your ear
happens to all such signals irrespective of origin.

Keith