"Richard Ashton" wrote in message

In uk.net.news.config on Wed, 2 Jul 2003 20:26:00 +0100, Chesney
Christ wrote:

}A certain Stewart Pinkerton, of uk.rec.audio "fame", writes :
}
} Think you'll soon get tired of patting one another on the back...
}
}Oh, I dunno - think of all the wonderful fights over solid vs
}suspended chassis, MC vs MM, belt-drive vs DD, pivoted vs parallel
}arms, unipivots vs gimbals, elliptical vs line-contact etc
etc....... }

}Then there's all the fun with RIAA equalization, removing large
amounts }of the bass and treble component of the recorded work (just
to make it }playable), different degrees of compression depending on
how close to }the centre of the vinyl you are, heavy across-the-board
compression to }get the fine sound detail above the built-in noise
floor.. yup isn't it }great!

Quantization noise and sampling analogue waveforms have no effect at
all on reproduction quality I suppose.

16 bit quantization noise is about 30 dB smaller than the various noises
that afflict vinyl, giving vinyl as much advantage as possible.

If you ****wits concentrated on the speakers where the real problems
are then the rest of the arguments are lost in the noise. Which is
where they belong.

Speakers and rooms are quite the nightmare, but vinyl is not that far
behind.