Whats an analog lover to do

March 28, 2005 on 10:24 pm | In News |

While perusing a few articles about vintage hi-fi and turntables, I ran across an article by Fred O. Williams of the Buffalo News, now it started off friendly enough, it was about a gentlemen named Bill Baltes who runs a hi-fi repair shop in Amherst. New York. All is well and I?m reading along about a fellow hi-fi fan and then I read “Analog” technology uses physical representations of sound - the minutely carved grooves on a disc - to represent music. Because of its mechanical limitations, analog yields a less precise version of an original recording than a compact disc, which encodes each second of music with tens of thousands of digits.?

Haha I just couldn?t help but laugh ?encodes each second of music with tens of thousands of digits? I don?t think this writer has any idea of what it would really take to impart the actual information from a LP in digital terms.

This is one of the most frustrating notions about analog playback, I run across. It?s so hard to convince someone who?s been ?Digitally Brainwashed? that they?ve been feed a lie. To be honest at this point in the game I don?t know that it matters, digital itself is undergoing a transformation with DVD-Audio and SACD attempting to offer the sound quality, that some of us have enjoyed for years.

But I do feel that whatever format is to come in the next few years, that?s to replace SACD or alike, may truly once and for all make it a moot point. i.e. with just one more push from the digital engineers from Philips and or Sony, we may indeed be able to put the Analog vs. Digital debate to rest, that is for those of us who know it wasn?t over with the introduction of the Compact Disc

B.Greenway