Describe differences in LP playback vs CD playback

[magiccarpetride]

We live in a distorted world and we somehow feel more comfortable with this than cold clinical technically perfect digital.

Interesting. I'm curious to know what makes you think that we live in a distorted world? Also, whose definition are we talking about when mentioning "cold clinical technically perfect digital"?

To me, nature cannot be distorted. I see nature not making any mistakes. Sound originates in nature, and thus it cannot be distorted. I know this is a philosophical statement, but nevertheless I think it is only human interpretation (engineering interpretation) that proclaims something to be distorted and something else to be 'clinical technically perfect'.

[jandl100]

To me, nature cannot be distorted. I see nature not making any mistakes.

Evolution and natural selection are driven by a never-ending series of mistakes. That's what makes the natural living world actually work.

[Barry]

Evolution and natural selection are driven by a never-ending series of mistakes. That's what makes the natural living world actually work.

"a never-ending series of mistakes" should read "a never-ending series of minor adaptations, or changes". If the changes were in fact 'mistakes' they would be of no advantage to the survival of those that bore them, and they would die out.

[jandl100]

Mistakes in the copying of DNA are what drives evolution.
The failures are just as important as the successes. They are what breed success.

[Barry]

Mistakes in the copying of DNA is what drives evolution.
The failures, or mistakes, are just as important as the successes. It is what breeds success.

Fair enough. (You mean DNA doesn't have error correction? )

[magiccarpetride]

Evolution and natural selection are driven by a never-ending series of mistakes. That's what makes the natural living world actually work.

I think the concept of evolutionary mistakes is an imputation. This imputation is coming from a very limited viewpoint.

I have yet to witness nature make even the slightest mistake. But that's just me.

[jandl100]

I think the concept of evolutionary mistakes is an imputation. This imputation is coming from a very limited viewpoint.

I have yet to witness nature make even the slightest mistake. But that's just me.

Yes, I can see that viewpoint as well.

Whilst the DNA copying is sometimes 'wrong', it is that wrongness that actually allows species to survive in a changing world - so in a way they are not mistakes at all!

[walpurgis]

I have yet to witness nature make even the slightest mistake. But that's just me.

Some might argue that the presence of human life shows that nature definitely does make mistakes!!

[Marco]

Indeed - and some of the vermin in existence that sadly are allowed to breed!

Marco.

[Jimbo]

Interesting. I'm curious to know what makes you think that we live in a distorted world? Also, whose definition are we talking about when mentioning "cold clinical technically perfect digital"?

To me, nature cannot be distorted. I see nature not making any mistakes. Sound originates in nature, and thus it cannot be distorted. I know this is a philosophical statement, but nevertheless I think it is only human interpretation (engineering interpretation) that proclaims something to be distorted and something else to be 'clinical technically perfect'.

Think you would have to start another post to cover distortion in nature. Moving away a bit from your LP vs CD playback post me thinks?