Hi Rez digital vs. LP
On Apr 27, 9:51=A0am, ScottW wrote:
On Apr 27, 7:45=A0am, Scott wrote:
On Apr 27, 6:03=A0am, rtweed wrote:
It seems to me that there's a very simple test to confirm or refute
the "does LP inherently sound better than digital" question:
- take your highest quality LP that you believe sounds superior, play
it on your best analog equipment possible and record it digitally
(preferably using your best ADC and highest resolution you want).
Now do a DBT listening to the original LP and the digital recording o=
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the LP.
My prediction is that nobody will be able to tell the difference and
the digital recording will exhibit all the same perceived qualities o=
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the analog original.
If this proves to be the case, any differences between the LP and
commercially-released CD (or whatever other digital format) must be
due to differences applied when each were created, or inherent change=
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in sound as a result of cutting to and playing back from vinyl.
This is not a test of which sounds "better" but a test of transparency
of digital. I have done this test both with hi res and with CD rips of
vinyl. The CD rips were not perfectly transparent. I was able to
reliably hear differences.
If you didn't rip at high rates and then digitally filter and then
convert to 16/44 you used inferior capture methods.
it may very well be inferior but it is still redbook CD which some
claim to be transparent. In my case with my rips they were not
transpent.
CD (16/44) is perfectly capable of delivering transparent audio
content for playback,
not recording.
I don't follow. somehow any redbook CD has to be "recorded"
OTOH when I did the same test with 24/96
rips I was not able to discern any differences. If one wants to do a
test to determine which is "better" between CD and vinyl in so far as
which offers a superior aesthetic one need only to get a CD and LP of
the same titel that we know were mastered with no processing or the
same processing in the mastering and do blind A/B comparisons.
=A0I don't know of anyone (except perhaps you) who claims that LP
playback cannot be easily blindly identified against CD when both are
of the same recording.
LP noise is audible.
With many records on my system it is not audible unless one is
cranking up the silent passages. I don't do that.
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