On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:54:50AM +0000, Daniel James wrote: > Some of the sound that people love is an artifact of the vinyl, and not on > the studio tapes. Subjectively, some people say CD is less 'warm' than vinyl, > whatever that means. It may be to do with information above the range of > normal human hearing, which is affecting our brains in some other way. maybe, but it's more likely the large amount of artifacts well within the range of human hearing :-) e.g. stereo crosstalk; various flavors of harmonic distortion; bass resonances caused by the turntable arm; probably other problems that i don't even know about. don't get me wrong, I love vinyl, I love the sound of many of my LPs. But most if not all turntables & records have very serious fidelity "flaws". -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's JUSTICE OF FIRE! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
