It appears to me from reading the article that they did a blind comparison among four digital sources, picked the group's best-scored two, then went to analog as a non-blind comparison.
"After the listening session of the second pair of digital contenders finished and I informed the audience that there was no need for a third round between the 2 winners since we had made this test earlier on, we went straight to vinyl and the Chabrier's classical piece recording by MERCURY..." It is not clear whether the comparison between digital and analog was blind or not. If not, then I do not think we can draw any conclusions from the test. Also, I agree with opaqueice's point: the mastering lineages of the CD and the LP can be completely different, so strictly speaking they were not even comparing the same material. One would never compare two digital sources by playing a well-mastered, dynamic-range preserving CD on source A, with a loudness-wars induced, poor mastering of the same material on source B. -- jeffmeh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jeffmeh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3986 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53355 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
