Bhaskar Jyoti Talapatra
Well-Known Member
HelloDigital is good when we want to store, transport and process music. Analog is good when we do listening or amplification. By nature , every signal is analog and our eyes and ears can process analog signals only. Theoretically an analog signal contains infinite amount of information which is impossible to store or transmit.Also they are much vulnerable to noise. so its very difficult to store and transmit an analog signal. Hency we convert it to digital. the moment we convert an analog signal to digital we lose "something", even we use more bits per sample or very high sampling frequency. The reason why vinyl sounds good is its analog (ASAIK) and nothing is lost!
Kingfisher
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and also some information regarding digital world. But my concern is not the SQ in the different streaming services available these days. Rather I focused on the conveniences which digital media offers. I can listen to almost all the songs I like anywhere with out bothering much about change of speed and record size( 12 inches or 7 inches, 33 1/3 RPM or 45 RPM etc), placing of the cart on the groove and returning it at the end of each record . Now I can just open an app and the music is on. Besides this, streaming services recommend many new songs which I don't have in any other physical media ( vinyls, CDs or casseettes). Actually during lockdown I discovered many new songs and I enjoyed all. As FM Ashenden has pointed out we would have ended up listening to the same music had there been no streaming services. However, buying a vinyl( pre owned or new), washing those, mending the outer sleeves, and playing them in a decent TT is something which the digital media can hardly offer. I am an old school person and I started listening to music tuning on radio and spinning vinyls on HMV fiesta. I can never forget my endeavour in procuring vinyls and casseettes and even some times I had to have songs recorded in blank cassettes. Analogue is peerless if you go for SQ and digital is ok if you consider convenience over everything.
Regards