[Trevor]

On 25/01/2015 5:23 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
geoff wrote:
Vinyl v. CD has little to do with sound quality. More 'nostalgia. Record
vinyl critcally to CD, and the CD playback will sound pretty much
identical to the vinyl.

Quite. Do the reverse, and the resulting LP no longer sounds like the CD.

It's something every single engineer knew from the first days of digital.
If not, doesn't deserve the title of engineer.

Sadly, in the first days of digital, it wasn't the case. How quickly people
forget just how far we have come.

So right, in the early days of CD we just lost most of the analog noise,
distortion, wow, flutter, ticks, pops and rumble, but sometimes gained a
much smaller amount of digital noise and distortion instead. Now we
don't have to worry about the latter either, just poor mastering
decisions :-(

Trevor.