Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"


Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"

I am sharing this for those with an interest. I no longer have vinyl, but I find the issues involved in the debates to be interesting. This piece raises interesting issues and relates them to philosophy, which I know is not everyone's bag. So, you've been warned. I think the philosophical ideas here are pretty well explained -- this is not a journal article. I'm not advocating these ideas, and am not staked in the issues -- so I won't be debating things here. But it's fodder for anyone with an interest, I think. So, discuss away!

https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2019/11/25/spin-me-round-why-vinyl-is-better-than-digital/amp/?fbclid...
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No one is trying to convince you that you are not hearing what you are claiming to hear. They are telling you it has nothing to do with vinyl, that vinyl absolutely does not have superior signal recreation capability, that what you hear is purely the particular recording and personal preference. That digital is more capable of whatever nuance you may claim which should be self evident given you can record vinyl on digital and play it back and not be able to distinguish the two.


I am also saying your claim that recording engineers think analog/vinyl is more "real" on average is made up.
The most interesting question for me is why it is that some are so hellbent on trying to convince me that I don’t hear what I do hear.
Scientism is the superstition or fetichism of the reality of material object absolutely outside of consciousness...

Someone posess by that materialist metaphysic cannot understand qualitative essential dimensions of experience otherwise than negating  them or reducing them to "subjective" nothingness...

Music is only bits for them....

Tomorrow A. I. will play piano better they said...




Then when you used your own ears experience you commit for the scientism the sin of deluding yourself....

Who can forgive you?




Goethe corrected Newton about his corpuscular metaphysical theory of colors but the lesson was never learned... Goethe succeed in describing colors phenomena and grounding his theory in the first physiologycal explanation of the experience...

But Goethe is a bit hard to chew for most....


Ansermet is the Goethe of music..... 😊

My best to you....


«Musical nuances are not made of bits, like the colors are not made by the Newton corpuscules» Anonymus Smith




« Do you dare to say that 2 equivalent mathematical objects can anyway differ ?» In real life yes.....

« I am sure now that you dont know the Fourier analysis translation of these 2 objects....» 😁

Folks can talk all they want but which has better sound quality. To me that's not really the important difference. The difference between digital and vinyl is a lot more like the difference between using central heat to warm your home and lighting a fire in the fireplace. It's largely aesthetic. 
I never argued except for personal convenience  for a supposedly absolute superiority of the analog or digital format....

I argued against the dogmatic affirmation by the power of numbers of absolute digital superiority.... Precisely because the human ears experience decide first.....

I use digital myself but understand those who chose analog....No conditions of the experience are the same....

audio2design, you continue to accuse me of making things up.   I don’t make things up.  My patience with your arrogance runs thin. Yours is precisely the attitude that I come across on the part of many engineers who rely on theory because they don’t have particularly good ears (at best) and even worse, considering their profession, do not have good sensibilities when it comes to music and performance.

mahgister puts it well:

**** I argued against the dogmatic affirmation by the power of numbers of absolute digital superiority.... Precisely because the human ears experience decide first.....****

Exactly.

Now, you should spend a little less energy on trying to be right (you are not) and a little more on reading what others have written more carefully.

**** I am also saying your claim that recording engineers think analog/vinyl is more "real" on average is made up ****

Nowhere did I write anything of the sort. Quite the opposite:

**** I could also point out and expound on the fact that recording engineers and musicians are often at odds as to what sounds closer to real (one reason so many recordings sound subpar) ****