RE: If your...

RE: If your...

Posted by Tony Lauck (A) on September 13, 2014 at 14:11:06

In Reply to: RE: If your... posted by AbeCollins on September 13, 2014 at 13:46:33:

The best medium from which the best recording engineers presently work today is a live microphone feed. This is captured directly by the ADC and distributed unchanged (except for "razor blade" editing) directly to the consumers. This is how Channel Classics works and why their sound quality is better than any other classical music label issuing recordings today. They also happen to use the best available DSD ADC.

There are first rate engineers working with tape at high speeds and width, presumably because they like the slight dynamic compression tape provides. This is suitable for some styles of recording and some musical genres. This is what Blue Coast Records does. They then mix the tape down to DSD and other digital formats.

With the arrival of state of the art DSD converters such as the Horus that work up to DSD256, expect to see other production processes come into play. At present, recording directly to DSD has not been practical for musical genres that depend on heavy post production, because of the generation loss converting in and out of DSD64. (This is apparent in a few of the Channel Classics tracks I have that are not pure DSD because post production was necessary for artistic reasons. I have both the original and remixed files of one of these tracks and can hear the sonic degradation from the DSD - DXD - DSD processing.)

Tony Lauck

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Topic - People here keep acting as if it is simple to hear a -120dB down signal. - Jaundiced Ear 00:58:38 09/12/14 (28)

Audiophiles prefer Formula E (nt) - Scrith 09:42:08 09/14/14 (0)

If your... - audioengr 13:34:10 09/12/14 (11)

I don't know... - Jaundiced Ear 02:16:52 09/16/14 (2)

you dont get it - audioengr 10:20:55 09/16/14 (1)

Ah! My mistake! Sorry about that! nt - Jaundiced Ear 10:43:14 09/16/14 (0)

RE: If your... - AbeCollins 15:49:27 09/12/14 (7)

RE: If your... - Tony Lauck 09:34:32 09/13/14 (4)

RE: If your... - AbeCollins 13:46:33 09/13/14 (3)

RE: If your... - Tony Lauck 09/13/1414:11:06 09/13/14 (2)

RE: If your... - AbeCollins 08:31:42 09/15/14 (1)

RE: If your... - Tony Lauck 09:47:12 09/15/14 (0)

RE: If your... - audioengr 09:29:28 09/13/14 (1)

RE: If your... - AbeCollins 13:48:19 09/13/14 (0)

I know a troll when I smell it - and this one literally stinks. N/T - carcass93 09:33:35 09/12/14 (1)

RE: I know a troll when I smell it - and this one literally stinks. N/T - Old SteveA 12:14:18 09/12/14 (0)

RE: People here keep acting as if it is simple to hear a -120dB down signal. - fmak 05:00:16 09/12/14 (12)

RE: People here keep acting as if it is simple to hear a -120dB down signal. - b.l.zeebub 07:47:13 09/12/14 (6)

I said hearing in SPL - fmak 09:51:45 09/12/14 (5)

So what? - b.l.zeebub 10:48:51 09/12/14 (4)

Inmates are resistant to the idea of audio masking - Jaundiced Ear 16:23:52 09/12/14 (0)

RE: So what?This - fmak 12:41:15 09/12/14 (0)

"differences of about 40-50dB" - couple of questions for you. - carcass93 11:09:12 09/12/14 (1)

RE: "differences of about 40-50dB" - couple of questions for you. - b.l.zeebub 07:44:54 09/13/14 (0)

RE: People here keep acting as if it is simple to hear a -120dB down signal. - Ugly 06:57:05 09/12/14 (4)

RE: People here keep acting as if it is simple to hear a -120dB down signal. - Tony Lauck 07:54:30 09/12/14 (3)

RE: People here keep acting as if it is simple to hear a -120dB down signal. - Ugly 19:49:53 09/12/14 (1)

RE: People here keep acting as if it is simple to hear a -120dB down signal. - Tony Lauck 09:02:04 09/13/14 (0)

RE: People here keep acting as if it is simple to hear a -120dB down signal. - AbeCollins 11:14:42 09/12/14 (0)

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RE: If your... - Tony Lauck 09/13/1414:11:06 09/13/14 (2)

RE: If your... - AbeCollins 08:31:42 09/15/14 (1)

RE: If your... - Tony Lauck 09:47:12 09/15/14 (0)

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