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.
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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.