On 12 May 2005 03:49:07 GMT, 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.

That's *preference*, an entirely different matter. I'm talking about
digital audio, where the evidence suggests that there's no audible
improvement above 16/44.

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.

Have you tried a blind comparison of the two?

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

Sorry, never used that one.

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.

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???

Aaah, not a true audiophile, then.... :-)

Dark Side of the Moon, an audiophile warhorse for more than 30 years
now. Many audiophiles have several versions, as it has been
'remastered' and re-released at least half a dozen times, the latest
being on multichannel SACD (it was originally made as a 4-channel
mixdown, so this is arguably the most 'real' version ever).

I do have two vinyl copies of "Supersax Plays Bird" with one being
a standard commercial release and the other being an MFSL
half-speed mastered release. The MFSL release is quite audibly
better. I'd like to think that a 24/192 recording would be audibly
better than a standard 16/44, but I've never had the opportunity to
listen, so I don't know.

There's good reason why a half-speed mastered version would have
better treble (I have about a dozen MFSLs), but there is *no* good
reason why 24/192 would be *audibly* different from 44/16.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering