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D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)

This is a video about the digital vs analog audio quality debate. It explains, with examples, why analog audio within the accepted limits of human hearing (20 Hz to 20 kHz) can be reproduced with perfect fidelity using a 44.1 kHz 16 Bit digital signal.

There is no audible difference between an analog and digital audio signal.

Among other things, xiph.org maintains the .flac and .ogg vorbis audio formats - they know a little about audio encoding and reproduction.

Just don't mention the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem. Last time I did that I barely made it out of the record shop alive

One of the sillier reasons I still purchase vinyls is that it feels like I'm getting a cool poster along with the music

For me it is less about the sound and more about playing music in a way that is devoid of any real software or internet connection.

I don't have to worry about ads, updates, connections, etc. Just other analog things like a bent needle or dust on the record.

It's like camping. No I don't like sleeping on the ground specifically but sometimes it is worth doing so to be somewhere else: disconnected.

To think that analog mediums are superior to digital requires a fundamental misunderstanding of signals and the human range of hearing that you can only get from ~~placebo enthusiasts~~ "audiophiles"

(I am by no means shitting on actual audiophiles btw. I consider myself an amateur audiophile.)

Edit: should also clarify I'm not shitting on people who enjoy records. I'm shitting on people who strictly think analog is better than digital.

I like putting a record on for more intangible benefits. It's a bit of a ritual to set everything up just right and get a nice sound out of it. Being so deliberate makes it something of an event where you're saying "I am going to spend the evening listening to music".

I will happily pay the absurd modern prices for vinyl if I know for a fact there is a digital download card inside. Record companies need to put a fucking sticker on albums to let us know this because not getting one feels like an actual scam.

Also pretty much everything is digitally mastered anyway so if anyone judges you ask them if they own ANY analog albums

I consume my music exclussively through wax cylinders.

Most musical instruments are analog. Digitizing them is inherently lossy. I mean, it doesn't matter, you can get both digital and analog recordings that are orders of magnitude more accurate than human hearing, but claiming that analog is more inherently lossy than digital is just factually incorrect, unless the music is produced purely digitally. Including no human voices, because those are analog.

Pristine? I bass boost the shit out of everything.

We only accept low frequencies in this household 🗿

miku miku beeeeaaaam

Dont tell them, but I mixed in protools before outputting to a conversion box to get it on the vinyl

Just so long as you acknowledge the fact that 99% of digital audio you listen to is not meticulously optimized the point that there's a discernable difference between it and analog sound.

I just like owning the spirally squiggly music line. Hehehe it spins and sound comes out

CD sales are also going up...

Pedant here 👋 "vinyl is the plural of vinyl." I'll see myself out.

omg literally me