8/18/2023 0 Comments Sonos turntableWhen I play on vinyl, you get some pops and crackles, maybe a skip. I don’t have room for different sets of sound equipment, so I stick to Sonos for the convenience. That said, I adore the ritual of putting on a record, listening to one side, reading the lyrics and liner notes, flipping it, all that stuff. Maybe if you have sound equipment costing thousands upon thousands of dollars, you might be able to hear a difference if you’re a very discerning listener. Your streaming service isn’t going to sound worse than a vinyl record in any meaningful way. Technology today has caught up in a major way. The idea that vinyl isbetter seems, to me, to be a leftover from the days when you could compare the sound of analogue gear to the sound of digital gear and really tell the difference. Sonos just makes it awesome because you can take that process and stream it to your whole house. Those who like it can enjoy it because of the imperfections, distortion, and the sheer process and ritual of getting to play a track. In fact, due to physical factors such as mass, wear, and momentum, even a perfect press of a vinyl would have a total harmonic distortion and a noise floor far above what a good digital file would have! A common 24-bit converter has enough resolution/dynamic range to make out both the loudest sound, and a sound that has a signal roughly 16 times smaller (in an electrical amplitude sense) than the quietest sound you can hear. Think of the loudest sound you have ever heard, as well as the quietest. Any imperfect digital "steps" that you might see from a digital representation of a sound signal correspond to a quantization noise that is so low on most modern converters that it is scientifically impossible to make out with your ears unless you had speakers that were literally playing louder than gunshots (and were somehow also able to make out tiny noises in all that)! Modern converters are accurate enough (from a resolution standpoint) and have more than enough bandwidth to be able to "perfectly" recreate the full range of what the human ear can hear. Hello, for some context I have significant experience on A2D and D2A converters.
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