Worth pursuing analog sound from digital?

Dear @fleschler  : """ we hear in the analog-realm.... ", yes that's what we/I think  till I read/learned that we have an ADC next highligths about but you can read the whole article there:


"""  the ear. This small organ has quite a few surprises in store for us. We' see that it's literally crammed with equalisers and dynamic compressors, including a multi‑band one. It even includes an extremely efficient filter bank, as well as a highly sophisticated analogue‑to‑digital converter.

The Inner Ear: Multi‑band Compression, Pitch Tracking & ADCThere are two kinds of hair cells. The outer hair cells are the actual receptors. When the tectorial membrane moves, so does the hair on the the outer cells. This movement is then encoded into electrical digital signals and goes to the brain through the cochlear nerve.


With the hair cells, we come to the end of the audio path inside the ear. Hair cells are neurons, and the purpose of the outer hair cells is to convert the mechanical vibrations that come from their cilia into nerve signals. Such signals are binary (all or nothing), and seem to be completely decorrelated from the analogue signals to which they correspond. In other words, they're digital signals, and the inner hair cells are analogue‑to‑digital converters. """


Btw, @tzh21y , yes and agree with your post.


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

I hated digital when I owned bad dacs (for me they were all bad ,too digital, harsh, piercing highs even when they were not piercing they were like craking chalk on a board even subtly like that sometines   etc)…. I owned someday a NOS dac with a minimalistic design and that was game over for me... This incredible dac was too low cost for being mass convincing... (starting point systems dac)The sound was anything but not digital...Organic and natural...Viva digital life...

Wow the record side is over already ! I haven’t finished reading the album.  That’s analog for ya.

The most critical part of digital playback is ANALOG - the laser reading the data part. AND it’s the part that messes everything up. Ironic, ain’t it? And you can never recover. Boo boo! 😩

I agree that since 1995, compression is one of the three greatest causes of bad/poor quality recorded music. However, in the 1970s-1980s, pop/rock was often compressed on the finished product. I have plenty of examples where the Pink Island British pressings are fantastic and the U.S. pressings were crappy sounding. How about the Beatles U.S. versus British pressings. My British pressings sound really dynamic, tonally rich and listenable. My Capitol pressings often are compressed, bright, hashy and noisy. Not very fun to listen to.   I had at least 100 classical music cassettes from that period and they sounded dynamically compressed and generally awful sounding compared to the LPs (and not just U.S. but from Philips and DGG).  CDs, once I could play them better in the mid-2000s, obliterated the same recordings on cassette.