On 24 December 2012 21:13, Michael Haney <
thez...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 3:03 PM, David Gerard <
dge...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 24 December 2012 20:50, Ignazio Palmisano
>> <
ipalmisan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Uhm it's cute but I fail to see why it's worth.
>>
>>
>> BECAUSE YOU CAN, of course. There is no better reason.
>>
>
> In the past few years vinyl records and LPs have been making a comeback.
> There is enough demand for them that the recording studios have started
> selling them again, and adding in all of the extras that made LPs so
> collectable in the past. Never underestimate buying the power of
> Audiophiles.
>
> Used to be pretty hard to find a turntable after CDs took over, but now try
> not to find at least one or two at Best Buy.
My point is that the 3d printer is at the end of an information
channel that includes a lot of digital transformations. It /cannot/
recreate a better sound than any of the digital layers between the
original audio and the finished product.
Audiophiles might have a point - I don't know, my ears are not good
enough to tell the difference. But that point is only valid if the LP
master is cut directly from the audio input, i.e., if the whole chain
is analog, and shorter than the other one.
To put it another way, if the input to the lathe, or whatever is the
tool that builds the master to print LP, is the same input that goes
to the thingy that ends up making the MP3, then /maybe/ there is a
difference in quality. If the lathe is after the analog to digital
conversion, rebuilding the analog can only become worse...
I.