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In Reply to: RE: Strange isn't it? posted by John Elison on March 6, 2017 at 16:06:27:
...using my former HHB-800 pro CD recorder, an older unit but quite clean. I felt that the digital copies were indistinguishable from the vinyl.
My thought at the time was that recording and playing the vinyl on the same piece of hardware was a factor in preserving its character. Digital seems to create little audible grunge when the A-to-D and D-to-A conversions take place on the same circuitboard.
Calling the *magic* of vinyl "distortion" seems too strong though. You obviously could never make the same LP and CD sound the same no matter how hard you tried. But it's more than a matter of measurable factors. The groove has many opportunities to get nuanced as the vinyl record is produced- playback devices, cutter-heads, amps driving the cutterheads, the lathe operator, a zillion interconnects, etcetc. These all add up to the LP inevitably being voiced differently from the CD. [On further reflection, there must be some similar elements going into producing a CD. I don't know much about how CD's get mastered and pressed...] By "voice" I mean individual humans' preferences affecting the final sound of the playback.
The OP (almost) surely isn't just manufacturing the differences in his head. There are very many variables affecting the sound of a CD vs. what's in the LP groove. You have to choose which voice you prefer.
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- I've gone through that process - mr.bear 03/7/1710:46:33 03/7/17 (2)
- RE: I've gone through that process - flood2 15:07:24 03/7/17 (0)
- RE: I've gone through that process - John Elison 14:15:33 03/7/17 (0)
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