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RE: Help- Digital vs Analog (long)

There are many great digital recordings. Try some of these to see if your digital gear can do the job: the early Mercury CDs (Saint-Saëns 3, Fennell band recordings, Sheffields (Amanda McBroom, Moscow Sessions), "The K&D Sessions" on the K7 label, pretty much everything on the Chesky and Dorian labels. Also a pair of Brahms Sonata 1's: Capuçcon & Angelich on Virgin, and Steinberg/Abel on Wilson Audio. The Hyperion set of Garrick Ohlsson playing all of Chopin are excellent, as is the Bis SACD set of Beethoven symphonies with Vanska and Minnesota. For something lighter, Mike Henderson's "If You Think It's Hot in Here" is terrific - just got that one.

My own rig used to have greater dynamic range in digital than analogue. That changed once I made the old Thorens quieter. Now, dynamics seem to be pretty much up to the mastering engineer. On the good ones (digital or analogue) I've got pretty much all the dynamic range I need. The detail, brightness, a low-level harmonics are pretty close - comparing "Songs in the Key of Life" between a file and the Speakers Corner LP is interesting, and not at all one-sided.

Listen to a bunch of recordings before deciding where the limiting factor is. Details become apparent with time.

WW


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