Audio

‘Analogue warmth’ and ‘digital coldness’ are not aesthetic preferences — they are different physics. Ferromagnetic hysteresis generates even harmonics. Delta-sigma modulators push quantisation noise to ultrasonic frequencies. Both effects are calculable.

The CD sampling rate is not a round number chosen by committee. It is the direct output of 1970s NTSC and PAL video engineering — and both standards, designed on different continents, converge on exactly the same number.