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(PS I looked it up. It does exist. I haven't been paying attention. There's a first...)
Google DAC clock 'jitter'On the CD vinyl thin, some 30+ years ago when CDs first came out they really weren't remotely as good to listen to as a half decent record player like a Rega, never mind a linn. I suspect those impressed by them were comparing a £200 CD player with their old radiogram autochanger rather than an equivalent cost record player.
I ended up buying a linn and the thing that impressed me the most was how amazing some old scratchy mono records I was going to dump sounded
These days, things have move on and CDs are a lot better.
These days, I have a studio quality soundcard in my PC, thus the DAC part is basically as good as the equipment used on the original recording. There is admittedly a slight, but perfectly audiable difference between studio quality (digital) recording and CD quality so it's possible that the best analogue records capture this, but I'm slighly doubtful. There's a bigger gap between CD and MP3, but having compared all three formats for the same music I was suprised how good even the audibly inferior MP3 actually sounded. I also understand that even quite cheap DACs are nowdays about as good as is theoretically possible. And any modern gramaphone record will have been recorded digitally before cutting the disc.
Anyhow, I do think digital is the way to go these days, but it did take a long while for it to really compete on quality once you get over the lack of scratches and hiss, which is arguably a secondary thing
Connoisseurship is one of psychologist Prof Richard Wiseman's pet subjects. He's come to the conclusion that whether you're talking about food, wine, art, music, whatever, they're pretentious snobs who can't tell the difference they claim in double blind tests.I can't help wondering if people who've paid that much money for a rubber band might be predisposed to fool themselves into hearing a difference, whether or not there really is one - after all, otherwise you might feel a bit of a twit mightn't you?
Google DAC clock 'jitter'
It's not a theory, it's the reason an expensive CD player outperforms a cheap un.I did. Despite the theory, I don't think my ears are sufficiently attuned to detect differences in phase that measure in the hundreds of thousandths of a second.
Connoisseurship is one of psychologist Prof Richard Wiseman's pet subjects. He's come to the conclusion that whether you're talking about food, wine, art, music, whatever, they're pretentious snobs who can't tell the difference they claim in double blind tests.