arnyk wrote:
> DBTs have shown that a single generation of vinyl transcription is
> highly audible while a single generation of even mediocre but modern
> digital is sonically transparent.
I'm arguing vinyl transcription reverses extreme compression, somehow,
so that would be consistent with my
darrenyeats wrote:
> I'm arguing vinyl transcription reverses extreme compression, somehow,
> so that would be consistent with my view.
Any suggestion of what the mechanism would be? Pretty much all the
non-linearities of the vinyl path would cause *more* compression - but
as has been pointed
cliveb wrote:
> So the LP master is commonly derived from the already hypercompressed
> "master master", because from an artistic viewpoint that is how it's
> supposed to sound. Sad but true. That's also why modern remastered CDs
> routinely sound worse than the original 1980s release - because
ralphpnj wrote:
> Finally I believe that there are several "masters" in use when making a
> CD or an LP. There's the master tape, which is then used to make a
> separate CD master and then a different LP master. Since the overall
> volume of an LP can't be boosted like that of CD there is no
darrenyeats wrote:
> "Expand your mind (the rest will follow)"! Such a device can only make
> sense in the situation where a signal has been compressed and you are
> reversing this process. I'm certain this process will be far from
> perfect, but nevertheless expansion is "A Thing".
>
> I
browellm wrote:
> ftfy.
Point taken :)
"To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this
fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt
edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953
ralphpnj wrote:
> I'm not sure but I believe that the dynamic range compression used on so
> many popular music CDs is the result of trying to push the overall
> volume of the CD way, way up. Remember that dynamic range compression
> was originally used on radio broadcasts to make the quiet
Julf wrote:
> There are loudspeakers
ftfy.
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browellm wrote:
> Hi Clive
>
> I'm aware of the artefacts that fool the DR database into reporting
> higher DR, but I can only offer my subjective impressions of owning both
> the digital and vinyl versions of many pop and indie new releases and
> the vinyl sounds way more dynamic. Now I
darrenyeats wrote:
>
> Ian is convinced that the vinyl can't have more dynamic range on
> principal but I think it's mistaken.
>
Since they are so often conflated, we seem to need to distinguish
between the needs of the people who produce the media which are social,
and the capabilities of
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