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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article <10mrn7u$3obvm$6@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D˙Oliveiro wrote:
>On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:16:19 +1300, Your Name wrote:
>
>> On 2026-02-15 02:23:32 +0000, Lawrence D´Oliveiro said:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:47:06 +1300, Your Name wrote:
>>>
>>>> The recording studios also use a much better digital equipment
>>>> than home music players or what is released on the CD or online /
>>>> streaming services, so what you're hearing has been downsampled.
>>>
>>> Are you admitting that digital technology can possibly be good
>>> enough to serve as source material for your precious vinyl?
>>
>> I didn't say whether it was "good enough" or not, simply what
>> happens.
>
>You used the term “downsampled” to refer to consumer delivery formats
>like vinyl.
>
>> For a CD, the sounds are downsampled to CD-quality from teh higher
>> quality studio digital recordings. Similarly with various streaming
>> qualities.
>
>Streaming and file formats can be in any sample rate and depth
>desired. No need for any “downsampling” at all.
>
>> For vinyl, it will depend on how exactly the vinyl master is made,
>> but it still won't be a purely digital recording, even though the
>> studio source was. There will be minute changes and differences.
>> Together, that *could* mean some people hear (or more precisely
>> *feel*) a difference in quality.
>
>So analog losses actually *improve* the perception in quality?
>
>Does this go for the dust and groove wear as well?
>
>>>> But the on and off bits of digital audio and video can never match
>>>> the near-infinite uniqueness of analogue.
>>>
>>> Quantum theory says no.
>>
>> Multiverse theory says every peice of music exists in every format
>> and quality ... somewhere. :-p
>
>Regardless of your attempt to distract from it, your original
>statement remains nonsense.
>
>>>> Even if you were digitally recording at a bazillion samples per
>>>> second, you'd still be missing things between each sample.
>>>
>>> Fun fact: your nervous system is basically digital (nerve impulses
>>> either fire or don’t fire). So you already do.
>>
>> Yes and no (and depends on who you ask). The human systems, including
>> the nervous system, are not really strictly analogue nor digital. They
>> are basically a mix of / somewhere between the two.
>
>Nevertheless, it is a fact that nerve impulses either fire or don’t
>fire, there is no in-between. That doesn’t depend on whom you ask; go
>ask any expert.
>
>(No doubt you’ll get the typical contrarian answers from audiophiles
>and other non-experts, so don’t bother ...)
Ho good is Cd in comparison to Audio tape?
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