If you think the best CDs can match, let alone beat the best LPs you must have some really wretched LP gear and records. Its not even close, if it was, they wouldn't have needed or developed later 20 and 24 bit recording and upped the sample rate to 192KHZ as they have for digital. CD is 16 bit/44.1 Ksample/s and its NOT as good as good LPs with good LP gear.
NO, offence but the crappeier the gear gets the more CD and LP sound alike, and when the gear gets atrocious, only then does CD sounds better of two evils, but its got to be down in the dirt for that to occur. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Sharpe Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 4:14 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital At 12:55 PM -0800 11/13/09, Joseph McAllister wrote: >On Nov 13, 2009, at 09:41 , J.C. O'Connell wrote: > >>ok, I'LL REPHRASE IT, The benefits of digital CD are worthless if it >>does sound SATISFACTORY! > > >On a top of the line, state of the art audio system, played through >a $2500 or better D to A converter, good CDs ripped into iTunes on >my Mac (or PC) using Apple's lossless compression (same as the CD, >basically), digitally sourced music sounds very sweet. Probably >because it is pumped through a conga line of vacuum tubes to get to >the speakers, which themselves are another analog stage to pass >through. > >But vinyl sounds warmer, with better staging, and more air, ultimately. I have heard some pretty lousy CDs in my time...but inevitably because the source material was poorly mastered. I have heard some lousy LPs in my time...especially LPs made from the 70s onwards, after the manufacturers started using recycled vinyl. LPs also can suffer from poor mastering, too; plus poor pressing. They are also more delicate than a CD, they are more prone to dust and they wear when you play them. In short, while it may be possible to have an LP sound as good as a CD, in my real world experience with both, CDs usually come out ahead. And that's just the short version! When you add the additional variables that differing stereo equipment and systems throw in, things become real complex. -- Steve Sharpe [email protected] . http://earth.delith.com/photo_gallery.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
