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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
Please take it from a former Sonarman and BSEE.

Take it from an old stew burner most of us can't hear all those sounds that vinyl claims to produce anyway. Sort of like the King's new clothes. We can't tell a thousand dollar bottle of wine from a cheap muscatel either.

171 posted on 08/07/2016 5:56:58 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC--Hillary kills USA--Pick one.)
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To: itsahoot; the OlLine Rebel

“Take it from an old stew burner”

Hey, ol’ stew burner.....! ;-)

I’ll try to tell you in simpler terms which you might be able to understand:

It is not the low frequencies or high frequencies which are necessarily affected or lost.

Digital music, a music CD for example, samples the sounds it ‘hears’ at the rate of 128,000 times per second - meaning that any sound which happens between each ‘sample’ is lost and is not recorded.

To put it in more usable frequencies - let’s assume that the sampling rate is 2 times per second instead of 128,000 times per second. All sounds between the 2 times per second samples would not be ‘heard’ or recorded, regardless of the frequency of the actual sound.

Vinyl does not do that. Vinyl is analog and records all sounds and, depending upon the quality of the sound equipment, can ‘hear’ 20 Hz to 20 KHz. A CD claims to ‘hear’ all of those frequencies but, again, they are sometimes ‘muffled’ because of the sampling rate.

I hope that I did not confuse you!

Maybe you could think about it like this:

You sample your pot of stew 128 times over a four hour period, for taste.....OR.....you sample your pot of stew 2 times over a four hour period, for taste. All of the changes in taste that happened between your 128 ‘samplings’ or your 2 ‘samplings’ would be lost, right? Agree? I like to cook, too! LOL


196 posted on 08/07/2016 7:24:45 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
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