Not giving up my three turntables or reel2reels (21 at last count) ;) Analog rules digital well it has a place in my system but so does cassette and I refuse to surrender my Akai CR 81D eight track recorder. Love listening to LPs...MFSL/UHQR, Sheffield, M&K Realtime, etc.,
OK, I’m going to unpack my JVC turntable when I get home.
What do you have an 8 track RtoR for? Did you have a recording studio?
No you misunderstood. That Akai is a 8-track cartridge recorder. One of the most desirable models in fact they still sell for good price on ebay. Only the quad surround sound model is more popular in the Akai range of eight tracks. Quad 8track tapes whata concept. I never bought into quadraphonic sound myself tho...plain ol stereo works for me.
But now the digital technology is advancing to a point where we can pack way more onto hard drives etc. So at the high end, won’t the technology likely devolve into extremely high fidelity digital products sold at a premium while most of the regular folks get by on the more bland digital versions now available? After all, if you could hypothetically pack 100,000 hours of listening into an Ipod, this would vastly exceed the amount of use the device could possibly get even without repeating a single song. At that juncture, wouldn’t it make more sense to make the digital songs much higher fidelity to pack in, say “only” 10,000 songs?
We’ve seen TV gradually morph from analog to digital, resulting in great improvements in fidelity/picture quality, albeit at a higher price. Given advances in computer memory, it seems inevitable that music will go the same direction, even if it hasn’t gotten there yet. I’m no techie, so this is obviously speculative. But I’m asking you, honestly, assuming the technology would permit far larger file sizes, is it really impossible to imagine digital versions of music that would be superior to analog versions delivered even on the best equipment?