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RE: "Jazz at the Pawnshop, - redbook better than the SACD or the vinyl".....disagree.....

Ric,

a few random thoughts.....just my opinions based on personal observation of both formats at SOTA.

sounding 'accurate' (digital) and sounding 'complete' (vinyl) are two different approaches. turns out that complete is more important to the musical content.

gaps are gaps. the human ear likes things that sound real and complete.

the answer is actually quite simple. vinyl (1) has waaay more bandwidth than any digital....and (2) doesn't screw up the natural phase of the music like digital (dsd does that the least).

the trick is having an Lp playback system that is able to reveal all the data in those grooves.

i'm no techie; but it seems that fundamentally the idea of sampling is just not suited to optimize musical satisfaction.

i love digital, and listen to digital 60% of the time. i just invested in multi-channel for my 2-channel room and am really enjoying SACD multi-channel. right now i'm listening to an Isomike multi-channel SACD.....wonderful.

SACD's and Redbook sound magnificent on my system.

but top-flight vinyl playback is a whole different ballgame.

mikel


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