There's a new music format that aims to deliver "the pinnacle of sound"

yeah bro let me listen to this shitty vinyl press of a digitally mastered album omg it sounds so good

i hate audiophools so much its unreal

"When describing the quality that raises analogue sound above digital sound, the word 'warmth' is often used. Analogue sound has more depth, more harmonic complexity, more resonance, better imaging. Analogue has more feel, more character, more touch. Digital sound is frozen. Analogue sound is alive."

I fricking hate analogcels. If your digital recording has samples more than twice the frequency that your ears can hear (which includes CDs), then there is no mathematical difference between it and the original analog. Literally zero.

Except the digital one can be copied infinitely, never develops any imperfections, and can be stored on like $0.01 of disk space (actually much less tbh).

I suppose I can't get too angry at a grifter, though. Some dumbass is gonna buy these things and claim it "sounds so warm!"

Sounds like bullshit for people who spend $50k on carbon fiber hydraulically dampened component racks and little bags of gems to place on your speakers to prevent the perfect tones from running away.

That “pure” “analog” “warmth” of vintage recordings everybody chases with tube amps and vinyl records has nothing to do with tube amps and vinyl records. All great music until the 90s digital loudness wars was recorded and mastered on large-format tape. So why not just listen to it on large-format tape as the artists originally did in studio?

The warmth you’re looking for is called tape saturation and it’s available in 1/4in and 1/2in open-reels.

T Bone Burnett, has announced that he is developing a new physical music format called Ionic Original.

Oh, it's an ad.

Thanks, mimwee.

"When describing the quality that raises analogue sound above digital sound, the word 'warmth' is often used. Analogue sound has more depth, more harmonic complexity, more resonance, better imaging. Analogue has more feel, more character, more touch. Digital sound is frozen. Analogue sound is alive."

>In quantum Yang – Mills theory at any time instant, the Minkowski space can be divided into infinitesimal small volume regions, say, β and one can assign quantum Yang - Mills field amplitude to each of these β. Now, the dynamical field variables (generalised coordinate and momenta variables), of the Coulomb gauge action defined in [arXiv:hep-th/9802180], constitute canonically conjugate pair, the simultaneous measurement of which is governed by the uncertainty principle. The ultraviolet (UV) behaviour of quantum Yang – Mills theory possess no instability as the separation between physical gluons becomes exceedingly smaller & smaller in the limit of approaching the origin of field space and also, in the said limit the dynamical conjugate field variables (generalised coordinate and momenta variables) goes on reducing in magnitude. Now, in the limit of approaching the origin of field space, the Minkowski space β becomes ‘empty space’. But what we understand of ‘empty space’ cannot be completely empty because that would mean that all the fields such as Yang – Mills field dynamical variables (generalised coordinate and momenta variables) would have to be exactly zero. As already stated above, the dynamical conjugate field variables (generalised coordinate and momenta variables), of the Coulomb gauge action defined in [arXiv:hep-th/9802180], constitute canonically conjugate pair like the position and momentum of the particle: the uncertainty principle implies that the more accurately one knows one of these quantities, the less accurately one knows the other. So, in the ‘empty’ space β the Yang – Mills dynamical field variables cannot be fixed exactly at zero because then it would have both a precise (generalised coordinate) value (zero) and a precise rate of change (generalised momenta variable) value (also zero). There must be certain minimum amount of uncertainty in the value the Yang – Mills field dynamical variables (generalised coordinate variable). One may think of this certain minimum amount of uncertainty as the least possible value [of the dynamical field variable(generalised coordinate)] dubbed as single physical gluon at trivial UV fixed point of asymptotically free quantum Yang – Mills theory under flat space-time assumption. In other words, at trivial UV fixed point, one may think of the Minkowski space β as spherical region consisting of only single physical gluon and to be of the order of the gluon wave-length. As such, at the trivial UV fixed point the Quantum Yang – Mills theory no longer remains a field theory that describes infinite number of particles; it becomes single particle theory in which the dynamical variables (both generalised coordinate and momenta variables) represent a single physical gluon say ‘G’.

>Accordingly, one can show that at Gribov horizon, the application of Gauss Divergence theorem to this single physical gluon ‘G’ leads to singularities of color-Coulomb potential spread all over a spherical surface β. After acquiring additional degree of freedom in the form of free color-Coulomb potential at Gribov horizon, the gluon ‘G’ has the aforesaid spherical system β firmly attached to it. At Gribov horizon, the uncertainty principle forbids this spherical system β, of constant radius equal to some plancks constant multiple, to undergo any Lorentz – Fitzgerald contraction in any inertial frame and rather, demands the motion of gluon ‘G’ to instantaneously drop to zero speed in the any inertial reference frame. This sudden deceleration in the speed of gluon ‘G’ at Gribov horizon assigns an inertial mass to gluon ‘G’ in accordance with General Relativity theory. This inertial mass of gluon ‘G’ produces gravitational effect in its surroundings because of equivalence between inertial mass & gravitational mass in General Relativity theory. The experimentally observed short range of strong force validates the unification of gravity with quantum theory as predicted by the uncertainty principle.

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