Dave Plowman wrote in
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In article . 39,
MrBitsy wrote:
Supermarket pie V home made steak pie
Perfect packet Smash V Lumpy mash from pie and mash shop
Modern quiet automatic car V noisy old sports car
Modern gas central heating V open, coal fireplace

In most of these the modern equivelent lacks soul although technicaly
superior!

That you think a supermarket pie or dried potatoe mix technically
superior to the real thing says a lot about your lack of technical
understanding.

I was more getting at the preperation of the pie - techy machines,
cleanliness etc! These pies just don't taste the same as mums!


So as someone who likes both, gets a lot of pleasure from both, I can
say that vinyl is more lifelike than CD although not technicaly the
same.

If it were more lifelike than CD then it would be able to imitate live
sounds better. This it certainly can't, in any test you care to try
where direct comparison, rather than your poor hearing memory, is
involved.


What do you not understand about 'I like both formats'? For me, something
gets lost in the transistion to CD that isn't lost with vinyl. In the pie
analogy above, no machine is ever going to beat the taste of my mums
steak pie - why? Technically the process is brilliant and hygene is top
notch but something is missing - quite possibly the human touch is needed
for that home taste.

Same with CD. Something gets lost in the recording and maybe vinyl can
supply that missing something - perhaps, just perhaps, having everything
just 'right' sucks some of that 'home cooking' out of the finished
product.

MrBitsy.