I wrote:
Did you never ask yourself why DJs play vinyl and not CDs? Because they want the audience to dance, of course. You don't dance to a CD, 'cos there's no rock'n'roll in them.
Der Automat replied:
Richie Hawtin plays only CDs and digital music files when djing. Go and see http://www.finalscratch.com
I know. Richie Hawtin is also one of the most untalented DJs I've heard in quite awhile. Come on, I fall asleep listening to him! This has probably nothing to do with the fact that he plays CDs, but it just might.. *grin* I also wrote:
Music is analog, no matter how it was produced. The end result is sound, and sound is an analog phenomenon.
Der Automat also replied and later on added:
My mobile telephone's ringtone sounds only digital. BTW, are human ears also analogue? :-p What comes from a digital synthesizer is a digital and original sound.
You're mixing two very different things up here. True, the sounds from your mobile phone are indeed *digitally produced*, but the actual sound emanating from your phone is analogue, like any other sound on the planet. It may be wrong to use the word analogue in this context but I originally did just to explain the fact that sounds as a physical phenomenon is an analogue signal, e.g. a sound wave. Digital sound is just sound that was processed digitally before it was output as an analogue sound wave. This is also why I claim that digital sound is always flawed, since somewhere in the process the sound was digitized, i.e. "approximated", and therefore inferior to the original sound wave from whatever the instrument may be. This generalization becomes difficult to use with sounds that were constructed digitally from the beginning, like electronic instruments.. (and your mobile phone :) So yes, the human ear is certainly "analogue", since there is no such thing as a digital sound. To the last statement of yours, what comes from a digital instrument, whatever it may be, is digital until it becomes a sound, then it's analogue. Always. Cheers, Peo