Comments by "Perhaps" (@NoEgg4u) on "Real Engineering" channel.

  1. Bang for the buck, digital has convenience and better sound quality. But if you are prepared to spend big $$, and lots of time, to set-up a high-end quality vinyl playback system, and use hard to find hot stampers, then vinyl will sound better.
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  2. Lots were said about the drawbacks of vinyl. Little was said about the problems that plague digital, such as jitter, and the calculations needed to convert an analog signal into zeros and ones (for storage), and then back to an analog signal (for playback). Every processing step chips away at the magic from the original sound wave. The implication conveyed by this video is that technology has proven that digital is equal or superior to vinyl. Would that mean that all CD players sound the same? (they do not) And as to the loudness wars / compression, this subject should have been addressed more assertively, in terms of how it ruins music. I am not knocking digital. It has huge advantages in areas, and can sound very, very good. But it is not a perfect medium, even though this video hints at it being the holy grail of music reproduction.
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  3. This video drew several conclusions that were not based on facts. For example: No two vinyl records sound the same. Therefore, for the host to compare vinyl to digital, and claim that only a trained ear can hear the difference, is absurd. The host bashed vinyl more so than he did for digital. Not mentioned for digital is the effect of jitter (the out of unison delivery of the digital content to the DAC, and the imprecise clocking in the DAC). Unless you purchased a high-end transport and high-end DAC, you have significant jitter. You probably do not notice it, because you never heard digital music that was jitter-free. Once you hear jitter-free digital music, your ears will hear jitter everywhere else. There are many other leaps of conclusions made by the host. I could write a dozen more paragraphs about misleading or wrong information conveyed by the host. The host did a good job explaining the basics. But the devil is in the details, and the host fell short in that area.
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