"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , David Looser
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"David" wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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Your body language when you demo your system probably cues them to
provide gracious responses.

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Are you saying that you think that any digital (CD) source is superior
to any vinyl source?

What do you mean by "source"?

Recordings are not all created equal, for reasons that have been
discussed here ad-nauseum many modern CDs sound crap. But yes, "any
digital (CD) source is superior to any vinyl source" under the
following conditions: both playing discs derived from the same original
recording with minimal messing about in the mastering, both feeding the
same amp, speakers and listening environment.

That does make some unspoken assumptions. e.g. that the processes were all
carried out carefully with well-performing equipment, etc.

Indeed I am making those assumptions, I would have thought that they are
reasonable and understood assumptions.

Put simply vinyl adds more (much more) noise and distortion to a
recording than CDs do. So the CD will always sound better unless some
"mastering engineer" has added distortion to the CD (and, sadly, they
do), or the amp, speakers or listening environment are significantly
different, or, of course, you *like* noise and distortion added to your
recordings!

Again that does make unspoken assumptions about the meaning of "better".
If
someone *likes* the alterations applied or imposed for one form of output
distribution system (e.g. LP) rather than another (e.g. CD) then they will
find that "better".

Agreed, hence my comment "or, of course, you *like* noise and distortion
added to your recordings!"


I assume your unspoken assumption is along the lines of a case like the
following.

Assume the recording is made with an excellent analogue mixing desk, etc,
and the output carefully mixed down to analogue stereo.

Or, indeed, made with an excellent digital mixing desk.

If you then make a
careful "digital CD recording" of that stereo output from the mixing desk,
and also an "LP" you may well find that the CD can sound closer to what
you'd get if you'd amplified the output of the mixing desk and listened to
it via the same speakers, listening room, etc. So I guess your "better"
means something like that.

Yup, and in the case of a recording of a live performance, closer to the
live sound.

However various people make up their own
personal definition of "better" so may disagree with you because they
don't
use the words like "better" and "distortion" in the same way. No common
language then leads to confusion and pointless argument. :-)

True enough, but whilst "better" is a purely subjective concept,
"distortion" in the context of audio does have a fairly well understood set
of meanings.

David.