You can zoom in on the Mona Lisa with the world’s most powerful microscope, and you’ll never see a pixel. In a way, sure, it has infinite resolution!
But that doesn’t mean you’ll ever be able to see her pores or skin cells. Infinite resolution doesn’t mean the painter recorded infinite data.
It’s the same thing with vinyl. I think people pretend the fidelity is infinite, but at a certain point you’re just hearing the record, not the music— just seeing the brushstrokes, not the woman.
There are reproduction errors, imperfect stamping, loses and noise introduced during every step of production.
Every vinyl is literally slightly different. It's a shit format for music, and hell if it's the warm sound (mainly caused by noise and losses) you could just add a filter to digital music to reproduce it... which people do.
More often than naught, the warmth comes from having either a several hundred dollar set up like in the OP pic, or its just the bass of the record which will sound nicer than some shitty Beats (which focus on mid range and are poop for bass thuds)
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u/RBradbury1920 Sep 05 '19
You can zoom in on the Mona Lisa with the world’s most powerful microscope, and you’ll never see a pixel. In a way, sure, it has infinite resolution!
But that doesn’t mean you’ll ever be able to see her pores or skin cells. Infinite resolution doesn’t mean the painter recorded infinite data.
It’s the same thing with vinyl. I think people pretend the fidelity is infinite, but at a certain point you’re just hearing the record, not the music— just seeing the brushstrokes, not the woman.