I was advocating just that. However, nobody has presented any data done just that way. At least when I was embroiled in an argument with the MP3-is-just-as-the-CD advocate nothing like that was referenced by him. The studies he referred me to were clinical settings where the environment and the music over the system were new to the listeners. The music may have been new to them as well. These conditions are bogus.
As I put it, If one takes different formats of a familiar recording over a familiar system (I should say the recording is familiar over THAT system) the differences between the formats will come through in blind testing. Unfortunately, vinyl inherently changes frequency response and has more noise so the question of analog vs digital would really not be addressed even by this study. It would have to be the subjective response of the listeners to euphonic questions like, "which sounds more 'real' to you"? Vinyl and CDs are going to sound different, better is subjective like beer tasting. However, we are talking about art here. Even if the analog digital question could not be adequately addressed, this familiar recording over a familiar system would put to death the Mp3 sounds just like the CD camp's arguments I would bet. -- brjoon1021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ brjoon1021's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12136 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85590 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
