CatBus;194466 Wrote: > Never thought I'd be a vinyl defender, but here goes ;) Vinyl is a very > unforgiving medium. Very true.
> You have to master the audio extremely well or it will run into vinyl's > limitations and sound like crap. You mean in the sense that the bass has to be mono'd to prevent the out of phase signal causing the cutter head to leave the lacquer? And in the sense that the treble has to be boosted to counteract vinyl's natural lack of top end capability (I'm not talking about the RIAA eq here)? > CDs on the other hand are very forgiving. You can compress and amplify > the audio like crazy (and other stupid things) and it will sound much, > much better than if you tried to master an LP in the same fashion If you mastered an LP in the same way, you'd be lucky to get 5 minutes of playing time on a side. And the record would be untrackable by 99% of pickup cartridges. So yes, you have a point. As a result, many modern pop and rock releases do sound better on vinyl than CD, because the medium prevents the use of hypercompression. This suggests that the colourations and distortions of vinyl are often preferable to the effects of hypercompression. > Because I like to fancy myself an objectivist, I'd like to believe that > if the vinyl master was used on the CD, the CD would sound much better > than the vinyl. I respectfully disagree. If an LP master was used to cut a CD, it would sound far too bright, because of the treble boost that is added. I've heard some early CDs that I suspect were indeed made this way (example: first British CD release of "Going for the One" by Yes). And I reiterate - I'm not talking about the RIAA eq here. -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34379 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
