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Originally Posted by Sarah
I adore the pops and crackles of vinyl. But. A good turntable, high-quality needle, and a well-cared-for record make the warmest sounding music possible, I think. The perfection of digital audio is just too clinical for me sometimes.
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It's not just the "perfection" of digital audio. If you have a CD it will be at 16bit and 44.1kHz. 44.1kHz means that the maximum frequency that the audio can contain is approximately 22kHz (the maximum value any human can hear is 20kHz). Analog recordings is not limited to this. There are frequencies in analog recordings up 40-50kHz and although human beings cannot hear these frequencies they still interact with the 20kHz that we can hear and that contributes greatly to the "warmth" that vinyl has. A 128kHz digital recording can have as much warmth as a vinyl, but of couse as soon as you burn it to a CD it is converted to 16bit/44.1kHz and so all the "invisble" frequencies that add warmth are lost.
Or so I've read in a few places
