On 29/04/14 17:17, RJH wrote:
That people prefer vinyl is not a myth at all.

BUT the reasons why they do are now not based on any discernibly better
sound

And I stand by my statement that tape was, the worst possible
recording medium ever, except for all the alternatives available at
that time.


What a peculiar statement. So it was the best available, at that
time.



I agree with that, I suppose. But still awful by the standards available
today? Given a decent sound engineer, I disagree.


There you go. straw manning again.

Its a bit like saying that because Fangio was a brilliant driver the
mercedes or whatever it was he drove was a really good car!

IT wasn't. It was terrible. You could probably beat it in a production
BMW today.


Tape is awful. Get over it. Just because with a huge amount of
calibration and understanding by some really good sound engineers and
design engineers it was good ENOUGH doesn't make it great. Just. Barely.
Good. ENOUGH.

The biggest advance was to go digital an turn it into a digital
recording medium. At a stroke out go wow, flutter, hiss, dropouts,
ghosting and companding, and in comes a bit of delay.


With over an hour of music available on a 600MByte device an gigabyte
and terabyte discs available why would anyone use tape ?


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