cliveb wrote: > This widespread belief that vinyl has to be cut from less compromised > masters due to the limitations of the format is misplaced. There is a > growing body of evidence that most modern rock/pop LPs are cut from a > master that is derived from precisely the same hypercompressed master > used for the CD release. (For sure there are a few where a different > master was used, but they are the minority). > > People use things like the DR value as "proof" that the vinyl has > greater dynamic range, but in fact that DR value is compromised by the > high-pass nature of vinyl - lose a bunch of low frequencies in the way > that *must* happen on vinyl, and the DR value automatically increases. > People have demonstrated this by taking a CD rip, high-pass filtering > it, and achieving a higher DR value. Similarly, when you look at a > zoomed in waveform ripped from vinyl, you'll see that flat-tops from the > CD are replaced with sloped waveforms, which on the face of it seems to > suggest less clipping. But in fact this is again a simple artefact of > the high-pass filtering intrinsic to vinyl. (A flat-top waveform is DC, > and vinyl by definition cannot reproduce DC). > > I wish to emphasise that I'm talking about new vinyl releases. It is > certainly true that "vintage" vinyl has greater dynamic range than the > CD re-releases - especially the so-called remastered ones. Whether that > benefit in dynamic range outweighs the downsides (non-linearity, higher > distortion - especially at end-of-side, surface noise, etc) is > debateable. I happen to think vinyl can sound bloody marvellous, but > let's keep things in perspective.
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