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This review of the Berkeley Alpha DAC by Tom Martin contains some interesting thoughts. He prefaces things with his view of 6 issues in home audio reproduction, one being 'a-musical digital distortions'. The product is reassuringly expensive and the review is positive (shocking!) but one sentence stood out for me regarding the aforesaid a-musical distortions from digital:
"I want to say that when knowledgeable music lovers and audiophiles prefer a medium (vinyl) that has massively inferior distortion, crosstalk, frequency response and noise levels, an open-minded person would see that as a data point suggesting some kind of digital error is prevalent"
DAC technology is such that we have different architectures, different filters and fantastic measurements. And here our reviewer compares it to analog - at least he recognizes that vinyl is very flawed objectively if very enjoyable subjectively. And yet there is no consideration that vinyl's imperfections are what make it enjoyable and that digital's near perfection is not as entertaining. It may not be true but, IMHO, such a consideration is conspicuous in its absence.
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Topic - Tom Martin (TAS) and Occam's Razor - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 14:44:21 11/26/24 (3)
- RE: Tom Martin (TAS) and Occam's Razor - Geoffkait 13:34:05 01/12/25 (0)
- Vinyl somehow allows the good to stay - hifitommy 13:41:59 12/04/24 (1)
- RE: Vinyl somehow allows the good to stay - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 16:40:47 12/04/24 (0)
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