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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:18:41 GMT, Death to Ronald McDonald
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>
>I kinda like the idea of a dual-sided CD. It's not that we're lazy; I just
>think that the original poster was implying that companies like Sony use
>convenience as a selling point, and "flipping" would be a drop.

Those companies make you people lazy because they want your money, and
want to kep you in a state of dissatisfactiion with everything. I was
glad when I had an old second hand record player when I was young, but
back then it was not a matter of everyone trying to be the best. We
were happy just to have something....

>As for the quality comparison of LP's and CD's... please. Digital is
>awesome. I'm glad records are gone and I don't miss them one bit. CD's
>offer perfect (well, almost perfect if not limited by a small range)
>reproductions of the original sound wave. I can't tell and if you said you
>could you're full of ****. CD's can also be reproduced perfectly every time
>without the addition of noise from the copier. Not to mention it's much
>faster because I don't have to wait for my deck to dub, it just copies.
>They're cheap, too. Pennies. I've got so many CD's that I have a drawer
>full of thousands that I don't even know what's on them, and I don't need
>to care because they didn't cost me a fortune.

I CAN tell the difference between LPs and CD's, and the LP's have much
better sound. despite the scratches. Maybe we heard a few scratches,
but the rest of the recording was as REAL as REAL can be. Digital is
only a sampling, and not everything is there. There is a website that
even shows how the peaks are flattened on sounds. I was told that dvd
is better, because of more samples per second. I have not heard dvd
music. But comparing LP or Tape, to CD, I'll take the LP or tape any
day. I guess that is why they amplify the bass so much on CDs,
because the low notes sample better, and they boom out the lacking
highs.

>Reel-to-reel was good quality, but I don't trust magnetic portable media -
>ever. I've got too many horror stories to tell.

I could tell much worse horror stories about digital media. When a
reel to reel tape broke, there was a patch and splice kit. A few
seconds of the song was lost, which is why a backup was made of
something important. The same for cassettes, but they had lower
quality and were much harder to fix. Yet, if a reel to reel tape
broke, you did not lose ALL of the data.

Now for digital. I had someone burn all my photos onto a CD. Luckily
I kept a copy on a spare harddrive, because the CD would not work.
NOTHING could be gotten off the thing. My windows 98 CD got stepped
on by one of the kids. I was unable to install windows at all after
that. I had to copy all the files to my harddrive, one by one, and
still had to get the remaining files from a friend.

I'd rather lose a few seconds of a song, or one photo out of 1000,
than lose EVERYTHING. I do not trust digital media in the least. I
wont even own a cd burner, because I would still keep everything
stored on spare harddrives, so what is the sense of the cd at all
then.

To backup my utmost ultimate important data, I use floppies. They are
much more reliable than any cds. If one floppy goes bad, I lose 10
pictures, not all 1000 of them. Magnetic media is far superior to
laser disks, any day of the week.

Your preferences notwithstanding, vinyl, for all it's charm, is so terribly
flawed and inconsistent a media that it cannot be discussed as being
anywhere near equal to properly executed CD technology.

In the early days of CD's there were some vinyl masters that were used for
the CD releases and this gave CD's a bad reputation early on.

Your references to losing 1000 pictures instead of 10 with a floppy is also
erroneous. Your focus should be on redundancy so you don't lose ANY
pictures. CD-ROM is a much more robust and reliable media than floppy discs,
but nobody should go physically stomping on EITHER of them. Keep your discs
protected if you don't want a disaster, and store copies off-site if you're
really that worried.

I collect and use open -reel tape recorders, but a computer recording at
16/44 blows any analog machine away.

Just because analog makes a warm and fuzzy sound does not mean it is
superior. It just means you have introduced one or more distortions to your
music, which cannot be removed later on.


Mark Z.

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news:...
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:18:41 GMT, Death to Ronald McDonald
> <> wrote:
>
>
> >>
> >
> >I kinda like the idea of a dual-sided CD. It's not that we're lazy; I
just
> >think that the original poster was implying that companies like Sony use
> >convenience as a selling point, and "flipping" would be a drop.
>
> Those companies make you people lazy because they want your money, and
> want to kep you in a state of dissatisfactiion with everything. I was
> glad when I had an old second hand record player when I was young, but
> back then it was not a matter of everyone trying to be the best. We
> were happy just to have something....
>
> >As for the quality comparison of LP's and CD's... please. Digital is
> >awesome. I'm glad records are gone and I don't miss them one bit. CD's
> >offer perfect (well, almost perfect if not limited by a small range)
> >reproductions of the original sound wave. I can't tell and if you said
you
> >could you're full of ****. CD's can also be reproduced perfectly every
time
> >without the addition of noise from the copier. Not to mention it's much
> >faster because I don't have to wait for my deck to dub, it just copies.
> >They're cheap, too. Pennies. I've got so many CD's that I have a drawer
> >full of thousands that I don't even know what's on them, and I don't need
> >to care because they didn't cost me a fortune.
>
> I CAN tell the difference between LPs and CD's, and the LP's have much
> better sound. despite the scratches. Maybe we heard a few scratches,
> but the rest of the recording was as REAL as REAL can be. Digital is
> only a sampling, and not everything is there. There is a website that
> even shows how the peaks are flattened on sounds. I was told that dvd
> is better, because of more samples per second. I have not heard dvd
> music. But comparing LP or Tape, to CD, I'll take the LP or tape any
> day. I guess that is why they amplify the bass so much on CDs,
> because the low notes sample better, and they boom out the lacking
> highs.
>
> >Reel-to-reel was good quality, but I don't trust magnetic portable
media -
> >ever. I've got too many horror stories to tell.
>
> I could tell much worse horror stories about digital media. When a
> reel to reel tape broke, there was a patch and splice kit. A few
> seconds of the song was lost, which is why a backup was made of
> something important. The same for cassettes, but they had lower
> quality and were much harder to fix. Yet, if a reel to reel tape
> broke, you did not lose ALL of the data.
>
> Now for digital. I had someone burn all my photos onto a CD. Luckily
> I kept a copy on a spare harddrive, because the CD would not work.
> NOTHING could be gotten off the thing. My windows 98 CD got stepped
> on by one of the kids. I was unable to install windows at all after
> that. I had to copy all the files to my harddrive, one by one, and
> still had to get the remaining files from a friend.
>
> I'd rather lose a few seconds of a song, or one photo out of 1000,
> than lose EVERYTHING. I do not trust digital media in the least. I
> wont even own a cd burner, because I would still keep everything
> stored on spare harddrives, so what is the sense of the cd at all
> then.
>
> To backup my utmost ultimate important data, I use floppies. They are
> much more reliable than any cds. If one floppy goes bad, I lose 10
> pictures, not all 1000 of them. Magnetic media is far superior to
> laser disks, any day of the week.
>
>
>

<> wrote in message
news:...
> I CAN tell the difference between LPs and CD's, and the LP's have much
> better sound. despite the scratches. Maybe we heard a few scratches,
> but the rest of the recording was as REAL as REAL can be.

As real as a crappy bit of vinyl with a a bit of rock dragged over it can be
anway.

>Digital is
> only a sampling, and not everything is there.

But **FAR** more than can be recorded to vinyl thankfully.

>There is a website that
> even shows how the peaks are flattened on sounds.

Yep, over compression is far too common, but not even necessary with CD, as
it is with vinyl.

>I was told that dvd
> is better, because of more samples per second. I have not heard dvd
> music. But comparing LP or Tape, to CD, I'll take the LP or tape any
> day.

A choice you get to make all for yourself.

>I guess that is why they amplify the bass so much on CDs,
> because the low notes sample better, and they boom out the lacking
> highs.

No, it's because the bass reponse is not limited like it is with vinyl.

> I could tell much worse horror stories about digital media. When a
> reel to reel tape broke, there was a patch and splice kit. A few
> seconds of the song was lost, which is why a backup was made of
> something important. The same for cassettes, but they had lower
> quality and were much harder to fix. Yet, if a reel to reel tape
> broke, you did not lose ALL of the data.

But if you lost just a small amount of the master tape it was effectively
ruined, and every backup copy is inferior.
With CD, dozens of back ups can be made for less than the cost of one master
tape, and they are all IDENTICAL.

> To backup my utmost ultimate important data, I use floppies. They are
> much more reliable than any cds. If one floppy goes bad, I lose 10
> pictures, not all 1000 of them. Magnetic media is far superior to
> laser disks, any day of the week.

Or you could make a hundred back up CD's for less price to all those
floppies, and still take up less room.
Anyhow, one of MY photo's won't even fit on a floppy let alone ten !!!!!

You really seem to be extremely technologically ignorant. But as long as
you're happy, then good luck with the vinyl, tapes and floppies

TonyP.

First off, it's obvious you are only here to flame.

>I CAN tell the difference between LPs and CD's, and the LP's have much
>better sound. despite the scratches.

LPs have what's known as even-ordered harmonic distortion. In other words,
distortions and colorations to the audio which actually make the music sound
pleasant.

However, these distortions are distortions, regardless to what they do to the
sound. Therefore, an LP is not an accurate rendition of the master tape.

>Maybe we heard a few scratches,
>but the rest of the recording was as REAL as REAL can be. Digital is
>only a sampling, and not everything is there.

Bullshit. If anything, CD captures audio in ranges with accuracy that is
simply not possible with LP due to practical considerations.

Your quote pretty much shows your lack of understanding of digital audio. In
the ranges that a 44.1 KHz sampling rate can capture at 16-bits, it can
**accurately and consistently** record the ranges from 22,050 cycles all the
way down to the 5 cycle range with 65,536 possible levels of voltage
(translates into approximately 96 dB of dynamic range with close to equal SNR
after dithering, which is FAR superior to even the best LP rigs) with a uniform
response under full digitization. CD can easily reproduce audio with accuracy
and with little effort that would otherwise be very difficult, if not
impossible, to achieve with LPs.

If you want a most accurate analogy to sampling rate in analogue terms: then
sampling rate is merely the equivalent of linear tape speed on something like a
reel-to-reel deck. The higher the tape speed, the better the high frequency
response. Likewise, the higher the sampling rate, the better the high
frequency response. To make it more interesting, if you were to play a 44.1
KHz recording at 22.05 KHz rate, the sound will play **twice as slow**!
Fascinating at how digital seems to mimic analogue tapes concerning frequency
response.

Anyways, records cannot be recorded with frequencies exceeding 15-16 KHz
because that is beyond the capacity of the record lathe, or cutter if you
aren't familiar with the word. Attempts to record at frequencies exceeding the
recommended roll-off will cause the cutter head to overheat and, therefore,
damage the lathe during the cutting of the mother, among other things.

Gabe M. Weiner, who was a professional recording engineer for PGM recordings
until his death in the late 1990s, had done a test where he records an LP
playback onto his DAT deck. When someone comes in, usually critical of digital
audio, Gabe plays an LP record, to which the critic sometimes replies with
something to the effect of "you can't do that kind of sound with digital."
Then, Gabe goes to the turntable and lifts the stylus off the record with the
music **still playing** with all of its LP quality ... preserved **digitally**
using Digital Audio Tape.

Similar experiments were done by curious people using high quality audio CD
recorder decks with similar results. Those results are not published, of
course, because they were done by audio enthusiasts under their own time. What
helps to prove their point is that there is consistency in the results: as long
as everything being used to make the recording is good and the whole process is
done without exceeding the limits of the system (like playing the souce too
loudly and then wondering why there is clipping in the recording), then the
results will remain relatively consistent.

Now what does that say about digital audio?

This pretty much proves, at least to me, that the so-called "magic" of LP sound
is due to what the format does to the sound in the process of playback. While
they are pleasing to the ear, it is, time and again, distortion artifacts that
are inherent to LP, period. Inaccuracies in an interpretation of a master tape
need not be unpleasant to be inaccurate, just plain inaccurate. To bolster the
fact that digital is accurate, it can even record an LP playback, "warmth and
airiness" qualities along with it, without a hitch.

To be on the level, digital is nothing more than another way to deal with
storing and replaying perceivable information. The ideas, regardless of
process, are the same: you convert information into a form for storage to
retrieve later, which is the whole idea of reproduction. With digital, you
turn a sound wave into a numerical representation. With LPs, you turn a sound
wave into a mechanical interpretation. With magnetic analogue audio tapes, you
turn a sound wave into magnetic print patterns.

With any process, you lose information that the process cannot store for
reproduction, due to design, configuration, or both. But, contrary to your
beliefs, digital encoding (as long as no lossy compression algorithms are used,
like MP3 or ATRAC and as long as the encoding equipment is properly dithered)
is LEAST DETRIMENTAL because it's interpreting the entire sound wave in the
complete frequency range that the sampling rate will allow as an accurate
mathematical model with parity checks to account for the ocassional error that
could occur as opposed to an LP making a dynamic physical approximation of a
sound wave through relatively inaccurate mechanical means which cannot be
corrected if this interpretation is altered in any way for any reason (usually
because of normal wear-n-tear, abuse, or a defect in manufacturing).

>Now for digital. I had someone burn all my photos onto a CD. Luckily
>I kept a copy on a spare harddrive, because the CD would not work.
>NOTHING could be gotten off the thing.

Irrelevant in the discussion of audio CD.

Besides, your situation may be explainable by possibilities that the individual
recorded the disc using too fast a speed which could have allowed excessive
BLER (BLock Error Rate), didn't close the session on the disc, or recorded it
using proprietary formatting like Roxio DirectCD instead of writing it as an
ISO compliant format.

Also, if the disc was a CD-RW, as opposed to a CD-R, if you use a rather
ancient CD-ROM drive, then that's also why you may not have been able to read
the disc. CD-RW discs do not have a refraction index of 1.55, so the optics in
an obsolete CD-ROM drive will not read the disc. A current CD-ROM drive is
configured to deal with discs having a different refraction rating to allow
CD-RW discs to be read, so an upgrade is in order to resolve this issue if it
is the case.

>My windows 98 CD got stepped
>on by one of the kids. I was unable to install windows at all after
>that.

And what do you think you can do with an LP that was stepped on, huh? Try to
weld the record together and hope that it will play like it did before the
break? Also, what do you think you can do with a floppy that someone bent in
half?

>I'd rather lose a few seconds of a song, or one photo out of 1000,
>than lose EVERYTHING. I do not trust digital media in the least.

Shows you do not understand digital at all and, therefore, should not post a
serious crticism.

>I
>wont even own a cd burner, because I would still keep everything
>stored on spare harddrives, so what is the sense of the cd at all
>then.

Storage that is more permanent than a hard disk and can be transported anywhere
and read by any data reader as long as the information is written in a standard
ISO format.

Besides, how in the hell do you think hard disks store data on their platters,
huh? Do they do it with analogue magic? NO! They do it DIGITALLY! It
doesn't have to be optical to be digital.

Likewise, it doesn't have to be digital to be optical. The LaserVision
videodisc system, also known as LaserDisc, is FM analogue. Although there are
LaserDiscs that contain digital audio tracks, they are stored within frequency
modulated subcarriers multiplexed to the analogue FM composite video signal.

Anyways, older hard drives used MFM, or modified frequency modulation, to store
data. This recorded an FM signal that contained digital information on the
platters. However, MFM hasn't been in use for hard disks in YEARS! I guess
you also think that new hard disks still use stepper motors for moving the
heads when drives produced beyond the past decade all the way up to today use
voice coil actuators for that job.

>To backup my utmost ultimate important data, I use floppies.

Again, how do you think information is written in those things? Floppies write
**digital** data in MFM formatting.

>They are
>much more reliable than any cds.

Bullshit.

>If one floppy goes bad, I lose 10
>pictures, not all 1000 of them.

Bad argument. Under proper care, as in CDs handled with care and put away in
their cases when not in use will have a theoretically infinite shelf life. For
CD-R media, depending on the quality of the disc itself, the shelf life can
range anywhere from 10 to 100 years. Fingerprints cannot damage the disc and
dust is easily cleaned. Optical discs, recordable rewritable and permanent,
cannot be erased by stray magnetic fields. Permanent discs because the pits
are permanently inscribed in the polycarbonate. Recordable and rewritable
discs because those rely on temperature changes to affect changes to the dye
layer, not magnetism.

In the case of magneto-optical, the area to be recorded as to be heated to its
curie point first before external magnetism can alter the track pattern.
Simply leaving the disc to be exposed by the sun for extended periods won't
heat the disc sufficiently enough to its curie point, but popping it in an oven
set to BROIL may, except who in their right mind would ever put any data
storage medium in an oven at any temperature, much less one that's set to
broil? As for the recorder, the heating is done under highly controlled
circumstances using a precision instrument to perform the actual heating.
After heating, a magnetic head above the disc pulses and inscribes data on the
disc. Instantly after heating and inscribing, the section of disc cools down
and the data inscription is permanent until it is heated to be altered again.
That's how MiniDiscs work.

Now, with floppies, they are susceptible to erasure or corruption from stray
magnetic fields. They will suffer physical wear as you do have a head
contacting the flexible magnetic diskette inside the floppy casing. They have
a shelf life of around 20-30 years, tops. Magnetic floppies are made using a
binder to bind the magnetic particles to the flexible plastic disc. Binders
will deteriorate and flake off after a number of years and is more susceptible
to damage from prolonged exposure to heat and light than decent CD-R discs.

Magnetic media isn't so superior when compared to laser optical discs after all
when you know the facts about them. - Reinhart

<> wrote in message
news:

> I CAN tell the difference between LPs and CD's, and the LP's have much
> better sound. despite the scratches. Maybe we heard a few scratches,
> but the rest of the recording was as REAL as REAL can be.

Horsefeathers.

> Digital is only a sampling, and not everything is there.

LP is music plus audible amounts of noise and distortion. It can't touch
digital for real sound quality.

> There is a website that
> even shows how the peaks are flattened on sounds.

That would be some producer's choice, not the inherent properties of the
digital medium.

> I was told that dvd is better, because of more samples per second.

I was told via email that if I buy this pill, it would make my penis larger.

> I have not heard dvd music.

I have, and yawn. The CD format well-executed does give a reproduction that
is indistinguishable from what comes out of the best possible recording and
production facility known to exist.

> But comparing LP or Tape, to CD, I'll take the LP or tape any
> day.

That would have to be based on some combination of sentimentality, rigidity,
and perhaps a more than a little deafness.

> I guess that is why they amplify the bass so much on CDs,
> because the low notes sample better, and they boom out the lacking
> highs.

No such thing,

>> Reel-to-reel was good quality, but I don't trust magnetic portable
>> media - ever. I've got too many horror stories to tell.

> I could tell much worse horror stories about digital media. When a
> reel to reel tape broke, there was a patch and splice kit. A few
> seconds of the song was lost, which is why a backup was made of
> something important. The same for cassettes, but they had lower
> quality and were much harder to fix. Yet, if a reel to reel tape
> broke, you did not lose ALL of the data.

You're spewing at the wrong guy. I make a ca. 1 hour 12 track recording at
church every week, burn it to one or two DVD-ROMs and take it home and mix
it. If there are problems with the DVD-ROMs (which has happened once or
twice) I just burn new ones.

Can I hear the difference between the digital recordings I make and
cassettes? Heck yes! The cassette is the one with level-dependent frequency
response, hiss, limited headroom, and audible loss of bass and treble not to
mention the audible flutter and wow. High speed open reel tape is a heck of
a lot better than cassette, but its not a sonically perfect copy of what
comes out of the best possible recording and production facility known to
exist.

> Now for digital. I had someone burn all my photos onto a CD. Luckily
> I kept a copy on a spare harddrive, because the CD would not work.

Stuff happens. However, millions of people are getting perfect results all
of the time.

> NOTHING could be gotten off the thing.

Stuff happens, but that's why we keep backups. I wouldn't let one bad CD-R
ruin my day, let alone ruin my life like has apparently happened to you.

> My windows 98 CD got stepped
> on by one of the kids. I was unable to install windows at all after
> that. I had to copy all the files to my harddrive, one by one, and
> still had to get the remaining files from a friend.

You mean you have a CD burner and you didn't back this disc up before the
kids got at it. BTW, why don't you tell us about all the perfect vinyl
copies you've made at home of your precious LPs. Or are you of the opinion
that LP's fare better than CD's when kids step on them?

> I'd rather lose a few seconds of a song, or one photo out of 1000,
> than lose EVERYTHING.

So make two CDs. First, don't use cheap garbage media and equipment so that
the CDs come out right every time.

> I do not trust digital media in the least.

I trust no single piece of media.

> I > wont even own a cd burner, because I would still keep everything
> stored on spare harddrives, so what is the sense of the cd at all
> then.

Obviously you've got some mental problems here, if a bad experience with a
CD-R goofed up your thinking this badly.

> To backup my utmost ultimate important data, I use floppies.

How many floppies to back up 8 GB of 12 track recordings?

> They are much more reliable than any cds.

LOL!

I think you'd be in for a harsh education if you tried to restore a lot of
data from floppies. besides, who is going to buy me the approximately 6,000
floppies to back up the 8 GB of audio files that I back up every week? At
one minute per floppy that would take me 100 hours or two and half work
weeks per week, just to back up the files! It would take me another 100
hours to restore the data at home. There aren't 200 hours in a week, so I
would never get the job done one week before I'd have to start it all over
again the next week! Letsee, it takes me about 20 minutes to burn two DVDs,
but I can do other things while it is happening. Ditto for restoring the
data at home. With floppies, I'd have to sit there and change media every
minute of the day and night for more than 8 days a week!

> If one floppy goes bad, I lose 10
> pictures, not all 1000 of them. Magnetic media is far superior to
> laser disks, any day of the week.

Hard drives are pretty nice, but it only costs me about $20 for the DVD-R
media to back up a $100 hard drive. And DVD-R's are a lot smaller, lighter,
easier to carry and store, and far more durable if you drop them in a case
or sleeve.

"Tony Pearce" <> wrote in message
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:
: >Digital is
: > only a sampling, and not everything is there.
:
: But **FAR** more than can be recorded to vinyl thankfully.

====================
Not really.........vinyl has a wider frequency range than CD
=====================
:
: >There is a website that
: > even shows how the peaks are flattened on sounds.
:
: Yep, over compression is far too common, but not even necessary with CD, as
: it is with vinyl.

======================
Most vinyl is not compressed at all.
======================
:
: >I guess that is why they amplify the bass so much on CDs,
: > because the low notes sample better, and they boom out the lacking
: > highs.
:
: No, it's because the bass reponse is not limited like it is with vinyl.

=======================
Bass response on vinyl is virtually unlimited.
I have a Saint Saens #3 that has the 16 hz organ notes on it.
=======================
:
:
: You really seem to be extremely technologically ignorant. But as long as
: you're happy, then good luck with the vinyl, tapes and floppies
:
==================
Vinyl, yes. Tapes (except DAT) and floppies, no.

writes:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:18:41 GMT, Death to Ronald McDonald
> <> wrote:
> [...]
> Digital is only a sampling, and not everything is there.

So let me get this straight: you're arguing with folks like
Claude Shannon, Alan Oppenheim, and Dimitris Proakis, who all
say (and show mathemtically) that quantizing a signal in time
loses absolutely no information? Or if you want to include
quantization in amplitude, you would be arguing with folks
like Stan Lipschitz and Robert Wannamaker who can show that
such quantization is equivalent to simply adding a benign
noise floor to the audio (and you can make that noise floor
as low as you want by increasing the resolution)?

Tell you what - when you have written a few dozen papers
about this alleged loss and shown mathematically how it's
there, I may listen to you.
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wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:18:41 GMT, Death to Ronald McDonald

> I CAN tell the difference between LPs and CD's, and the LP's have much
> better sound. despite the scratches. Maybe we heard a few scratches,
> but the rest of the recording was as REAL as REAL can be. Digital is
> only a sampling, and not everything is there. There is a website that
> even shows how the peaks are flattened on sounds.

You don't understand much about audio do you ? Or digital.

geoff

Richard C. wrote:
>> ====================
> Not really.........vinyl has a wider frequency range than CD
> =====================

No.

> Most vinyl is not compressed at all.
> ======================

No

>> No, it's because the bass reponse is not limited like it is with
>> vinyl.

And you can reproduce this ?


geoff

"Richard C." <post-> wrote in message
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> "Tony Pearce" <> wrote in message
> news:40149fca$0$18299$ u...

>>> Digital is
>>> only a sampling, and not everything is there.

>> But **FAR** more than can be recorded to vinyl thankfully.

> Not really.........vinyl has a wider frequency range than CD

Not if cleanliness of response is considered. Not if number of octaves of
response are considered.

>>> There is a website that
>>> even shows how the peaks are flattened on sounds.

>> Yep, over compression is far too common, but not even necessary with
>> CD, as it is with vinyl.

> Most vinyl is not compressed at all.

Wrong. Due to the inherent low dynamic range of vinyl, compression is often
required.

>>> I guess that is why they amplify the bass so much on CDs,
>>> because the low notes sample better, and they boom out the lacking
>>> highs.

>> No, it's because the bass response is not limited like it is with
>> vinyl.

> Bass response on vinyl is virtually unlimited.

Wrong. The fundamental resonance of the tone arm limits the bass response of
vinyl. It also greatly disrupts frequency response several octaves above.

> I have a Saint Saens #3 that has the 16 hz organ notes on it.

A CD can cleanly hold music and natural sounds at frequencies down to 0.01
Hz or less.

>>
>> You really seem to be extremely technologically ignorant. But as
>> long as you're happy, then good luck with the vinyl, tapes and
>> floppies

> Vinyl, yes. Tapes (except DAT) and floppies, no.

Vinyl's day came, went, and that was that.