heisenberg wrote: > True. But even the best digital master can be outdone by the best analog > master. For that to happen, you'd need to get lucky and nail a really > good pressing. Which is like searching for a needle in a haystack.
We'll just have to disagree on the issue of the best analog being superior to the best digital. I've been lucky enough to have been in some studios over the years and heard direct mike feeds and the analog open reel playback. There is always a loss. Tape has its own issues with non-linearity and noise that are always present. And though a carefully made LP can still sound very good, it is yet even further away from the original feed than the tape. Conversely, I find a digital recording that hasn't been processed to be the closest to the original feed. I know I'm a stuck record on this issue, but digital is not what's wrong with digital. Rather it's the faddishly unfortunate processing and manipulation that's been popular in the industry for too many years that makes so many CDs sound poor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98603 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
