Russ Button wrote:
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

16/44, 24/96, 24/192 and DSD listening test results suggest that CD is
as good as you'll ever hear.

Hmmm... I have a number of recordings where I have them on
both vinyl and CD. When I compare them, the vinyl invariably
sounds more pleasing to me, surface noise notwithstanding.

I recently acquired a Xitel Inport A to D converter and made
a couple of CDs from vinyl recordings and then compared the
Xitel created digital copies with the original vinyl. I did hear
some minor degredation in the sound, and the imagine wasn't
quite as deep either.

If it was a sighted comparison,
I'm sure you did hear such things, but whether it was
because of the *sound* of the two, cannot be determined by such a
test.

I suggest you pick up the current issue of Skeptic magazine,
and read the articles on double-blind testing, and on
the skeptical view of audiophilia.

Do you know anything about the Xitel Inport and it's level
of quality?

Stellar, from what I recall. Which makes your experience all
the more suspect, don't you think? If I were you I'd set up
a blind test if only to make sure my Xitel wasn't broken. ;


As Steven Sullivan keeps saying, it is the mastering which
is key. Obviously there are two different mastering events
when you're listening to a vinyl vs. CD copy of the same
recording, and I have to agree. I have one recording of
Johnny Hartman that is on vinyl, an American produced
CD and a Japanese produced CD. All are different from
each other, though the American CD sounds most like it
was the same mix as the vinyl.

Yet a good digital copy of a vinyl record should
sound indistinguishable from the record, when listener
bias is taken out of hte picture.


Hey, it worked for LP, with DMM and half-speed mastering, it worked
for CD with 'digital remastering' and gold CDs, why shouldn't it keep
working? How many versions of DSOTM do *you* have? :-)

DSOTM???

Dark Side of the Moon. It's been remastered a few times.




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