This is basic audio technology, not anything coming out of personal preference and certainly not related to specific equipment owned. Some of the discussion appears to reflect a misunderstanding of digital sampling technology. A properly sampled analog waveform(i.e. if at least two samples at the frequency in question are taken)is reproduced exactly as a result of the digital sampling process; no approximation or missing information exists. The distortion and other inaccuracies inherent in even the best examples of old technology, such as LP records, are absent. The quality of the original material can be duplicated with complete fidelity; if that material is of terrible quality it will be reproduced just as is. Enthusiasm for obsolescent technologies on the basis of nostalgia or collecting interest is all very well, but claims as to having competitive quality have no factual basis.
A study of Dr. Lesurf's
explanation of digital samping in the material originally prepared as an introduction for his electronics and physics students is worthwhile in gaining an understanding that what comes out of the process is exactly what went in.
