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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Yes, but the mechanical nature of vinyl means that the are a huge number of variables that conspire against it. Temperature, vibration, dirt, needle wear, needle wear on the record, inductive losses at the transducer (ie. where the mechanical movement of the needle is translated into electrical currents)
Just because the analog waveform is represented in an analog fashion on vinyl does not mean that you have more resolution than digitally sampled audio:
If you like the sound of vinyl, and many do, that's great. But it's not a superior format on technical merit. It's actually a lower sampling rate that is more subject to environmental factors when reading back the waveform, and with no error correction to top it all off.
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I not going to say exactly what's wrong with those numbers (because I don't know, and I don't have time to look it up). But something seems drastically wrong with them to me.
If one PVC molecule cutting means a maximum of 11 bit comparative sound, Records couldn't possibly be more than 3 or 4 bit sound. Which for obvious reasons, wouldn't sound like anything. To get a maximum of 4 bit sound then, you would have to cut to 128 molecules resolution (which still seems really low to me)