Mikelavigne makes a very interesting, and accurate, point regarding noise and LP playback. Contrast that with the CD format that actually throws away the quietest sounds to rid the system of noise. Taken to the extreme, if you kept audio rig off it would never produce any noise either. Of course you'd be throwing away the music too.
Vinyl's Noise Floor
vinyl's noise floorI'm actively considering returning to analog after a 19 year hiatus from it. I listen to a lot of classical music, which, as we know, has many pianissimo, i.e., soft passages. If the soon-to-be desuetude 16 bit format has an attribute, in my opinion, it would be an extremely low noise floor. I've read about the advantages of analog, the most salient of which is its innate sense of continuity and palpability. What concerns me about vinyl is its, supposedly, high noise floor.Assuming that the recording is of the highest calibre, the vinyl impeccably clean, and the analog rig unequivocally great, will there be even a modicum of distracting noise during a near-silent segment of music?
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