May I add, especially on preamps and amplifiers using tubes. Compare CD the CD to Mercury Living Presence vinyl.
I wish Mercury would reissue John Barrows' Brahms Trio, rebalanced of course. Avrum > From: Michael Hrivnak <[email protected]> > Reply-To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:08:55 -0400 > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] survey: digital download vs CD release > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:20 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The reason why it is indecipherable from a live recording is because it is >> generally recorded at a sample rate of 44.1Hz - which is faster than the >> human ear can respond to. > > I have to disagree with this. Why do SACDs exist? Because they > absolutely sound better than CD. Most SACDs are actually hybrids, so > you can quickly switch back and forth from the CD layer to the SACD > layer. The difference is astonishing. > >> I still hear people say that vinyl records sound better than CDs - when the >> truth is no one can tell them apart... > > I can!!! CDs do not have higher quality or more data than a human can > distinguish. That is a myth. Listening to a good quality recording > on good audio equipment back-to-back from CD to vinyl, there is no > question that the vinyl sounds much better. If you have never heard > this difference, perhaps you have not been able to do a back-to-back > comparison on audiophile equipment. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/agolub%40optonline.ne> t _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
