Vinyl

[Rev. Rye]

Then what exactly is it about the sound of vinyl that you love so much more than digital? If you think it's fidelity to the actual performance, well, analogue recording has a lot of limitations (dynamics and frequency ranges) that digital recording can obviate (even if many engineers don't bother.) Honestly, if anything, it's like... you know how sometimes actresses (especially in older films) had the camera go just a little bit blurry and it had the effect of making them look even more beautiful than they might have done in real life?  Like Carole Lombard did to hide a scar on her left cheek and Doris Day when it became clear she wasn't exactly looking the part of a virginal blonde anymore? It's a bit subtler auditory version of that.

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Also, I keep noticing that there's a strange disconnect about how many posts there are in this thread. I just got two notifications on replies I supposedly got in this thread since my last post, but mine is the last one visible. The "New Threads/Today's Threads" shows a total of 26 replies to the OP, but the last visible post is #21. What the actual fuck, tech guys?

Edit: And this briefly showed up as two posts, #21 and 28, side by side, before I refreshed the page and they were merged into #21. Something very strange is happening with this thread, and I don't mean Gol Dernitt's confusion about what constitutes high-fidelity sound.

I'd be open to an explanation  of fidelity.  Can't even post on this site without a workaround, not your fault, not mad, lemme have it.

Here's an article which explains exactly why vinyl sounds the way it does, why digital recordings actually capture recorded sound more accurately, and why vinyl seems to have its own charm in spite of it.

And here's some more points about the numbers that show that, yes, Digital formats sound closer to what a performance actually sounds like.

And now for something from Popular Science.