The point was is that you CANT add anything to digital recordings to make them sound like highest end analog recordings as implied. highest end analog isnt about distortions and colorations that you could add to any digital recording to match it. At this point it not even clear that the best commercial digital recording systems at any bit depth/sample rate can match an analog cutting lathe ( direct to disk LP recording) or a really high end analog tape recorder.
Microphones are not the limiting factor/problem with most recordings ever made, the recording engineering usually is however. BTW, some of the worlds finest mikes, still in use and demand today are very old models which means that mikes have not been much of a limiting factor in the past, other links in the chain have like poor LP playback gear and poor low res digital recording machines. -- 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 Rob Studdert Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:45 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital 2009/11/18 J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]>: > false, false, false, you cant take low resolution > digital recordings (CD) and DO ANYTHING TO THEM to > make them sound even remotely as good as proper > high end vinyl mastering and playback. there is no magic trick to > restore resolution lost in the low res digital recording/playback > processes. If there was a magic black box like that, CD wouldn't have > been replace by higher bit rate digital processes > like 24/96 or SACD etc. And where in the reply to which you are referring did I mention "low resolution digital recordings"? Of course I agree that it's impossible to restore information which has been annihilated, however the new recording systems are effectively more capable and accurate than the best transducers to which they must be connected in order to record sound waves. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
