In Reply to: But I don't like Vinyl better, I prefer SACD and DVD-Audio. I hope someday they have the higher resolution of Vinyl. posted by Teresa on February 17, 2006 at 22:24:54:
Trying to quantify vinyl with some sort of "resolution" doesn't make any sense. The point is whether vinyl is faithful to the original recording or performance and it quite clearly isn't no matter what criteria is used.The format has so many compromises that even getting a recording onto the disc often involves changing it in some way, either by mixing in some EQ or squashing dynamics to prevent overmodulation. Mastering vinyl is a lot more difficult than mastering digital (which incidentally is ironic as more engineers make a mess of digital than they ever did with analog).
For most, DVD-A and/or SACD has all the realism you could ever want, I think you're very much in the minority on that one. Have you heard 'The Window' on SACD?
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