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What does 'cold' mean? What does 'warm' mean?
good point! 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
The problem in assessing the alleged superiority of analog over digital or the contrary is simple to formulate:Human hearings evaluation of an analog or digital format, in a specific room and in a specific electrical grid, is more impacted, unbekn... 
Classical Music for Aficionados
I forgot this rendition of the " Rhapsody for alto" of Brahms by Marian Anderson, which is with Kathleen Ferrier the goddesses of song...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w35B8hK5Y4 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
If you are going to make stuff up to suit your view of the world, When i said that they are on par, i was not speaking about the technological possiblities, but of their different qualities contributing to the perceived phenomenon...You also make... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
The original phenomenon is not a signal, or if it is one, it is a complex one with digital and analog aspect link to acoustic of room and ears relation...The acoustical timing of many events in the room constituting the "timbre" instrument for the... 
What does 'cold' mean? What does 'warm' mean?
You are not alone, rejoice! 😊But audio experience cannot be reduced to these qualifications....They are too gross...Audio experience is linked to the more deep question : Is the recording of this piano timbre like my audio system render it to my e... 
Message from the Past: We were never against tone controls
Generally anything between the source and the amplifier will suck the life out of the music. Because the room acoustic come after the amplifier do you think that it will not interfer ?And the electrical noise floor of the house is where? before t... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
I am glad to not be the only one to understand that in this thread.... 😁Happy New Year to you....«What is an engineer? Someone who reduce all phenomenon to signal controls or formats...What is a scientist? Someone who can return back any signals t... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
This is just trying to paint a fantasy brush onto reality. You don’t store sound, you store a signal, either analog of digital. The real concrete sound in a room is not a signal, digital OR analog, it is a phenomenon which can be reduced to a for... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
Digital perfectly preserves timing in the analog time domain The timing we speak about in the formation of timbre is an acoustical concrete perceived phenomenon in a room first with ears in the room, not first a sound phenomenon in analog format ... 
Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital"
In your dogmatic rant you conflate 2 different concepts of timing, the timing of bits flows, and the acoustical timing events linked to the definition of "musical timbre"...And i never ever said that analog is superior to digital, you confuse me w... 
Classical Music for Aficionados
Easily one of the greatest Bach rendition by a female voice on par with Kathleen Ferrier and very, very few others... In her voice emotion eclipse technical art like the sun eclipse the world.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuzYE3E0Nfk For tho... 
Jazz for aficionados
One of the greatest instrumental song in jazz....Eerily faithful to the emotion and to nothing else....No more ego only each nude note....On par with "kind of blue" for me....Perfect epitome of what the best jazz is: spontaneously beating heart...... 
What does 'cold' mean? What does 'warm' mean?
Cold and warm are subjectively attributed to sound but anyway very real experience of perceived sound phenomena....It is a characterisation of the musical timbre of a specific instrument playing in a specific room from a specific audio system, com... 
What does 'cold' mean? What does 'warm' mean?
Subjective description of a complex audio event for the ears, which is most of the times ascribed to a cause that is the wrong culprit...Too much warm or too much cold for example are perceived and submit to an analysis of the reasons why this is ...