Nostalgia is ok. I'm not a young person either :) Lets not forget the not so unimportant fact, that the recording/production itself, how it is done twarts all mere technicalities. So one will prefere a somewhat fuzzy fluttery noisy master of a very well balanced and well done record Over a perfecttly 24/192 recorded failure any time. I'll take the good recording on cassete over 24/192 it will still be better.
Some of my best sounding CD's do origin from analog tapes, but thats not why they sound good. I'm no expert on analog tape machines but things did not exactly stand still a machine from the 60's or a later model is probably a world apart. And they add a lot of things to the sound, so yes I would gently disagre, they are bottlenecks, you can prove that by listening to a CD of analog origin. They have shortcommings, some origins in speed imperfections it is a mechanical thing with motors and little wheels and stuff and mostly the nature of magnetic " stuff " saturdation and hysteres etc. They employ bias and whole bag off tricks to coax that magnetic tape in to resembling something linear this is not something magnetic systems naturally wants to do. The amount of engineering is amazing it can make me nostalgic :) But the net effect is very benign on acoustical music like classic or jazz as this often recorded in one session without overdubs, so you dont loose that much. Heard of the term " generation loss" copy analog tape back and forth a couple of times and it quickly loses in ultimate sq . Profesional machines are very good but each analog copy loses something. Thats exactly how analog multitrack recording was done, the mixing session ultimately involves a lot off copying tape back and forth when mixing or aplying effects . That is the history of rock and pop recording analog tape machinery had to reach a certain quality level before Beatles "seargent pepper" was possible to do technically. These losses are not benign at all. You can read of mastering engineers actually using analog tape as a " sound effect" softening the sound of some recordings trough a tape machine then digitising it again ? That was for normal CD releases ? So i do have to gently disagree here, the analog origin is a bottleneck even to a CD much more soo to a so called hirez recording. Digitital recording have it's own set of problems, but dont lose track of why it was invented it solves countless old problems recording engineers have figthed against for generations before that. Lets not forget that tape age, depending on storage conditions and chemical properties ot the tape itself, some tapes literaly crumple to dust 40 years later ? That is a sad thing, but a fact. So yes a well preserved LP can be the best avaible master of some music. OT ripping LP and upploading it has becomme a hobby on it's own , so some previusly unaviable stuff is there now, but as usual it's mostly cr*p so I have not investigated it to much. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86017 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
