Alan Surrey
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Long live vinyl.
From memory, my vinyl pick up cartridge has a flat frequency response up to about 40kHz.
A CD has 44,000 samples per second so can just about represent a signal at 22kHz, but not say anything about its amplitude or phase. This is why vinyl can sound so good compared with CD. Enjoy
On the other hand, in my experience, a cheap CD player usually sounds much better than a cheap vinyl player.
From memory, my vinyl pick up cartridge has a flat frequency response up to about 40kHz.
A CD has 44,000 samples per second so can just about represent a signal at 22kHz, but not say anything about its amplitude or phase. This is why vinyl can sound so good compared with CD. Enjoy
On the other hand, in my experience, a cheap CD player usually sounds much better than a cheap vinyl player.
I comepletely agree, but the collecting of lossless format digital recordings has become its own version of vinyl, but for people with less cupboard space. Then you get into the same rabbit hole of equipment but you remove the turntable and substitute a DAC.
All different flavours of the same obsession!