Yes, recently playing at a little house party, what I noticed was that
playing direct off my laptop has a different tone quality - basically,
there are a lot more highs present on the laptop tracks than on the
vinyl. It easy easy enough to EQ the sound system a little so that the
laptop sounds more in line with the vinyl playing previously, but if you
switch straight out you will hear a definite difference, not really in
resolution but all the highs can make the digital sound a little bright
if the sound is tweaked specifically for vinyl. Again though, twist a
couple knobs and this can easily be corrected.
~David
robin wrote:
May I be annoying, and raise a technical point here?
Digitalised music is always an "approximation", so I prefer to stick
with "the real thing" and keep my vinyl.
In a decent sound system anyone can tell the difference when
comparing the "real thing" with .wav, .mp3 or any other standard
digital format...
i used to think like that guilherme. thing is tho i've not met a dj
yet who knows how to drive the levels properly on a dj mixer (and once
one dj in a night pushes those levels into the red all that follow
more or less have to do the same) and almost all club PA's are pretty
poor quality.
i also think that people's ears are trained to hear vinyl specific
mastering. if someone plays something digitally that's been mastered
for that media (off a cd for example) the sound is definitely
different. i prefer my own recorded off vinyl files for that reason.
robin...
