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RE: You ask a good question

> Accuracy and excellent sound are not synonymous.

Very true!

On the other hand, once excellent sound has been achieved, accuracy in the duplication and storage medium is required to maintain excellent sound quality.

Digital is extremely accurate when copying the sound of vinyl. This can easily be heard. Digital is also extremely accurate in audio measurements as opposed to vinyl, which exhibits at least 100-times higher levels of distortion than digital. The logical conclusion would be that distortion is responsible for the characteristic sound of vinyl whereas digital is basically transparent. At any rate, hi-res digital can be made to sound just like vinyl by simply copying a vinyl record.

Another logical conclusion is that recording engineers and record producers do not value the sound of vinyl. If they did, it would be very easy for them to produce CDs with the characteristic sound of vinyl. All they would need to do is make a playable master lacquer from their finished master and use it to make their CDs. I once heard a playable master lacquer made by Peter Ledermann played on a high-end vinyl system and it sounded absolutely awesome. Hi-res digital could easily capture that sound quality and even 16/44 Redbook could come pretty close, but record producers don't seem to be interested in doing that. The market must not be there for such a venture.

After all, many of the vinyl enthusiasts have formed a prejudice against digital. On the other hand, digital oriented audiophiles know that digital, when mastered properly, can sound better than vinyl. Therefore, there must not be a market for digital recordings that sound like vinyl because it would be pretty easy to make them. I've been making them since I bought my first DAT recorder in 1991.

Best regards,
John Elison

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