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That's not the reasoning. He mentions at least one thing: Vinyl records sping with the same speed for the whole record, so the audio quality gets worse toward t
by sydd 6y ago
That's not the reasoning. He mentions at least one thing: Vinyl records sping with the same speed for the whole record, so the audio quality gets worse toward the end. This is not the case with digital recordings.
- tuatoru 6y agoSome things he doesn't mention - Because of the pivoting nature of the playback tonearm, you get a minimum of 2.5 degrees tracking error on the inner grooves as well. This causes some distortion. - The very best playback cartridges have intrinsic total harmonic distortion figures up around 0.5%, which is second-worst in the audio chain, only exceeded by speakers (typically 1%-3% for good quality speakers). Mechanically induced distortion is mainly second harmonic, though, and is less grating than odd-harmonic distortion, as you get with electrical clipping and DAC artefacts.
- oriolid 6y agoYes, those things are true. They do set limits on accurately vinyl record player can reproduce the original signal, but they certainly do not mean that all record players are as bad as this one.