Heh. I've read all of this thread, including all of your excellent posts and only just found out you were the one who started it! I salute you for an outstanding effort
Regarding the comment on Rob Watts putting an ADC into some commercial studios, is this a wish, or has there been confirmation that he actually has this in the pipeline?
If so, sign me up at once
Finally, regarding the vinyl thing..
There are some things about this that I just don't get. I'd heard the various arguments about vinyl being the best (and this argument extended to vinyl rips).
When I've tried vinyl rips, even those claimed to be converted using TOTL equipment, I felt.. disappointed.
Most had that hiss and crackle sound, which to me defeats the point of having hi-fi sound if it's muted by that noise.
Furthermore, even when making the volume louder, the music seemed somehow a bit muted and compressed.
Maybe on just one or two I felt like there *might* be a greater dynamic range (especially when hiss and crackle absent), but due to the effects above, I still couldn't really appreciate it.
I've never heard vinyl records played on a high quality system, so that's what I'm lacking perhaps? I'm certainly inclined to agree with your point about rips made using studio grade ADC's!
Not to mention the awed reviews from people listening to CD rips via the Mojo and discovering whole new dimensions of sound and detail!
Finally, and please excuse my ignorance on this issue, but people state that vinyl is analogue. But a vinyl record has pits in it. So a flat part of the record contains (I assume) no information, and a pit some information. So in terms of 1's and 0's and digital data, how is this analogue rather than digital, and different from a CD?