Consider how music is recorded and played back. My younger daughter recently received an old-fashioned Victrola record player for her fifteenth birthday. She’s now able to listen to Ella Fitzgerald on vinyl. This is a quintessential analog experience. All of Ella’s notes and scats glide just as smoothly as they did when she sang them; her volume goes continuously from soft to loud and everywhere in between, and her pitch climbs just as gracefully from low to high. Whereas when you listen to her on digital, every aspect of her music is minced into tiny, discrete steps and converted into strings
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