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When is digital going to get the soul of music?

I have to ask this(actually, I thought I mentioned this in another thread.). It's been at least 25 years of digital. The equivalent in vinyl is 1975. I am currently listening to a pre-1975 album. It conveys the soul of music. Although digital may be more detailed, and even gives more detail than analog does(in a way), when will it convey the soul of music. This has escaped digital, as far as I can tell.
mmakshak
tmsorosk
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Sorry my mid fi digital rig has out performed some very expensive analog rigs iv'e heard lately . I'm wondering what a very hi end dig rig in a properly synergized system would do for music . A friend who has spent an amazing amount of time and money on his analog set up , not to mention building and voicing is entire system around that rig , recently purchased a mid fi Cd player and often comments on it not being close to analog . The cost is about one tenth the analog rig and little has been done to voice the set up . What can I say .
timoteo
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Folks have been saying that digital is poor-sounding compared to their old vinyl. I'm wondering if the big problem isn't that digital sounds bad, per se, but maybe a a lot of the problem is that most recordings are mixed and mastered by engineers who don't care about the sounds of the end result, and only want to mix it really loud and get it out the door.

I have also read that mastering of recordings has changed, for the worse, since the days of vinyl, before CD. I listen to rock, jazz, jazz/fusion a lot and I am finding that practically every CD in these genres that comes out these days are heavily compressed and in general sound like crap.

So maybe a lot of the problem is in the mastering for CD?

I am getting disheartened. So maybe CDs in my favorite genres sounds like crap that I'm almost thinking of getting out of the game.
aplhifi
515 posts
 
Muralman1,

One of my all-time favorites and system test disc is the Reference Recordings "Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances".

If you hear the difference between this excellent CD and the RR 176.4Khz/24bit HRx disc made from the original analog master, you will change your mind, forever! :-)

Simply, half of the info is missing on the CD and there is no transport or DAC available to make up for it!

Best,
Alex Peychev
muralman1
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Albertporter, nothing would make me happier to have you living close by.
muralman1
1,527 posts
 
Aplhifi, I have, "Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances." We just have to agree to disagree. I happen to love record playing and all it's rituals.

Remastered CDs sound derived from master tapes are the best too!
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