On 26 Dec 2004 16:57:12 GMT, Steven Sullivan wrote:

Don Pearce wrote:
On 24 Dec 2004 16:08:34 GMT, Steven Sullivan wrote:

Don Pearce wrote:
On 23 Dec 2004 19:03:57 GMT, Mike Prager wrote:

michael wrote:

I've always thought that maybe digital recording was "too good" for the
analog crowd. That they just couldn't ever get used to the low noise
floor (along with the wider frequency response).

The HF response of many, if not most, recordings is hotter
than neutral. Some degree of HF distortion is also not
infrequent. With digital, it is possible to reproduce this
all accurately. It can be annoying to those with good ears.

That is not to say that those who love vinyl may not also be
responding to other factors, just to agree that better
reproduction is not always pleasant to hear.

Mike Prager
North Carolina, USA

Hear hear! Go to a normal classical concert with a symphony orchestra,
and you hear a pleasant, balanced sound. Listen to the same on a
normal record - CD or vinyl - and all of a sudden the highs have a
sort of exaggerated fizzing quality. This is very unpleasant, but can
usually be fixed quite easily if you are prepared to take the trouble
of running the recording through a DAW to re-equalise.

And you're sure this is due to the recording, and not the vastly
different room acoustics?

It still happens with headphones - so room acoustics don't come into
it.

Headphone listening doesn't model listening in a concert hall either.

The limitations of two-channel reproduction of a live event have been
known since the development of audio for movies and later, for home.

Yet you seem to be talking about a frequency anomaly. If all recordings
--LP and CD -- merely require re-equalization to 'fix' them, it seems
surpassingly odd that no recording engineer or producer has noticed taht
so far, in the 50+ years since the first LPs.

Who says they haven't noticed? I suspect that even the most assiduous
of engineers will fall prey to the producer leaning over his shoulder
saying - it sound a bit dull, can you give it some sparkle?

d

Pearce Consulting
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