Phil Leigh;520194 Wrote: > I've done this. Using commercially released material is pointless as you > will see - its lineage is unknown... > > Record an acoustic Guitar and vocal performance using a Neumann U87 and > Focusrite ISA430 Mic Pre-Amp onto a properly aligned an maintained > Studer A80 1/2 inch 2-track. > Play the tape back simultaneously through two Apogee converters (AD16 I > think), one running at 24/96 and the other at 24/192 and capture to disk > using Sonar. > > You now have the perfect test material to prove if 24/96 is audibly > different to 24/192. > Playback the files via a 24/192 DAC. Can you hear ANY difference? Can > you pass a DBT? > I can't and when I did this test a while ago no-one else we tried with > could either. > Unfortunately I don't have the files or equipment to repeat this > experiment anymore. Other people on the Audiophile forum do. Maybe they > could oblige?
Is the studer an analog tape machine (back in the days studer/revox made those) ? could one not record directly to a harddrive from the mick -AD converter and skip the analog tape intermediary ? I fear that if any difference exist an analog tape machine regardless how good it is would level out the difference . You have however proved the futility of remaster analog stuff above 24/96 . How good can a reel to reel analog tape be ? sure noise is never going to be -144dB but with high tape speed frequency response can be awesome ? I don't want to be flamed but is not good old 16/44.1 good enough for most old analog masters ? maybe 24/48 is needed for the best of them ? sure 24/96 will better any analog tape machine ? But as used in studios some actually likes the sound i reckon, and use them as a mastering tool to get that "analog" sound, hence the popularity of vintage stuff to get a certain sound on your recordings. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: SB3 (soon to replaced by a Touch :) It is on preorder) Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Receiver (soon to be replaced by my SB3 and the SBR to be stuffed in a box in the attic ) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
