after converting CD to WAV files and hearing for myself that a file can sound exactly the same (and as good) as a CD, I was considering converting some vinyl to files.I have a tt with a USB output, so it should be easy. But it occures to me that if you own and listen to vinyl because you believe it sounds better,(whether or not it actually does)what would be the point? Then it occured to me that maybe it would prove whether or not vinyl sounds better. If that's true then the file should sound worse than the vinyl, right? haven't tried it yet. After listening to my new WAV version of my CD's on an ipod nano, they sound so good that I seem to have lost interest in some esoteric argument about what "sounds better".In any case, the convenience of the ipod trumps any small(and, possibly,imaginary) difference in sound quality. I've been an audiophile for forty years but I now find imaginative,long-winded descriptions of sound quality in the subjective audiophile press to be silly and tiresome.Since I read in TAS a review which stated that a high-end amp has excellent(get this),"timing and pacing" I think it may be time,for me anyway,to forget about all this.
after converting CD to WAV files and hearing for myself that a file can sound exactly the same (and as good) as a CD, I was considering converting some vinyl to files.I have a tt with a USB output, so it should be easy. But it occures to me that if you own and listen to vinyl because you believe it sounds better,(whether or not it actually does)what would be the point? Then it occured to me that maybe it would prove whether or not vinyl sounds better. If that's true then the file should sound worse than the vinyl, right? haven't tried it yet. After listening to my new WAV version of my CD's on an ipod nano, they sound so good that I seem to have lost interest in some esoteric argument about what "sounds better".In any case, the convenience of the ipod trumps any small(and, possibly,imaginary) difference in sound quality. I've been an audiophile for forty years but I now find imaginative,long-winded descriptions of sound quality in the subjective audiophile press to be silly and tiresome.Since I read in TAS a review which stated that a high-end amp has excellent(get this),"timing and pacing" I think it may be time,for me anyway,to forget about all this.