Letter from a Herbivore
I think the publisher should consider changing the name of the magazine from Stereophile to Herbophile.
Tim Grindell,
Hastings, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Vinyl vs digital
There is much confusion in the industry about what vinyl is and what it isn’t. I see much being said about “vinyl vs digital,” as if vinyl was a synonym for analog. Analog music represents the actual, continuous sound waves generated by the artists and their equipment. Most of the vinyl being produced today is from digitally mastered music. Does vinyl somehow transform this digitally sampled music into continuous sound waves? Of course not. Vinyl is the preferred delivery technology for analog music and, more recently, a synonym for analog.
