Archimago wrote: > the intangible "something" that they identify as special about the > system.
Philosophically some audiophiles have finally come to terms with this and do extensive "ripping" of cherished vinyl .you can have your cake and eat it too as many times as you like , realising that this " something " is the mastering pressing and playing back of vinyl and that it is fully captured by a digital recording . A subset of those have even realised that 16/44.1 is more than enough to capture that " something ". This is still somewhat thought as a heresy by those why share these needle drops on the net . I think "they"( sorry for,the lack,of a good source ) proved this already in the 90's with cd recorders if anyone remember those . In practice I would use 24 bit during the recording session to get sufficient headroom for click pop and rumble and maybe downsample after eventual,post processing and normalisation . The missing part is the tactile experience of placing the record on the platter brush of the dust and sink the needle on to a track. Any one remember the hunt EDA carbon fibre brush ?. A couple of friends of mine throw a party with this theme , they collected all the vinyls in the group and found a somewhat working record player and these folks are not audiophiles ! This is a journey for a vinylphile especially to philosophically accept 16/44.1 which is the evil CD :) and getting the wider picture that the playback media is almost insignificant compared to the base qualities of the recording and mastering itself . The media is just a carrier of the information some media is not entirely transparent like Vinyl and cassete tape and low rate mp3 but sometimes the options are limited. Also I think the sound engineer comunity had a learning curve with thier new toys too , specially that there is no added " secret sauce " when the consumer plays it at home no added warmth it has to be in the production . They did and sadly realised that things that where impossible on vinyl could go on a digital media ( groove width speed and riaa curve is adapted to fit music with " normal " spectral content on the LP ) and started overloading the CD master with more HF content and finally the uber compression fad . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98057 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
