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A Couple Of Articles For Digital Listeners

If you prefer digital audio, here are a couple of articles that provide a little support for your listening preference.

MY INTENTION IS NOT TO START AN ARGUMENT WITH PEOPLE WHO PREFER VINYL.

IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY THE ASSERTION THAT DIGITAL CAN SOUND VERY GOOD, MAYBE EVEN BETTER THAN VINYL, PLEASE DO NOT READ THESE ARTICLES.

http://www.laweekly.com/music/why-cds-may-actually-sound-better-than-vinyl-5352162

http://copper.psaudio.com/issue5/15/

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georgehifi
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I can see why some like vinyl, as I conducted an experiment with the same Beatles track on CD v Vinyl and I preferred the vinyl because it had more body to the mids and fuller bass , even though it’s wasn’t as tight or separated as the cd.

So what I did was to reduce the channel separation of the cd (120db) to the same channel separation of the vinyl (30-40db at best) with a left and right mono’izing bleed network on the cdp.

And you guessed it the Beatles now on CD replay was preferred, as there was body to the mids and fuller bass, and the left right ping pong effect of early music cd replay was greatly reduced, more mono’ized for want of a better word and no surface noise as well with no tracking distortion of a stylus, even though separation L & R spread was reduced and tightness also was reduced.


Cheers George

khrys
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Marktomaras try Radka Toneff "Fairy Tales" and Paul Simon "You're the One" albums analog vs digital on your system. I doubt one will blow away the other as you requested but the digital is clearly superior on my system. 

ejr1953
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Hey, if you enjoy vinyl more than digital, or digital more than vinyl, or both, who am I to say you are "right" or "wrong" for enjoying your listening one way or another.

Too many of us Audiogoners seem to insist they THEY are "right" and if you don't agree with them, YOU are "wrong".  Kind of detracts from the enjoyment?
marktomaras
544 posts
 
I AM right, darn it!!
:-P
mahler123
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  I want to thank the OP for those excellent articles.
  I just sold my analog rig-Clearaudio Concept tt with Concept mc and a Musical Surroundings Phono Pre Amp--and used the $ to help me substantially upgrade my DAC, to the Mytek Manhatten.  I am ecstatic.
My thousands of redbook CDs never sounded so great and my computer files as well.
   When CDs came out I thought they were a Godsend.  No more pops, clicks, wow and flutter, speed instability,  brand new lps that looked like Ruffles Potato Chips thye first time removed from the album sleeve, and on it goes...Around 2000 I had a midlife crisis and I was missing the days of plowing through record store lp bins, and the relentless audio press propaganda for vinyl was heating up, so I bought the Project Starter table of the day, and I progressively upgraded until I hit the aforementioned Concept.  Vinyl was always a secondary source for, a change of pace, after digital.
   Without spending more time on the vinyl vs digital thing, I decided that
it just wasn't worth it, and that digital has come so far as evidenced by breathtaking gear such as the Mytek , that the current fashion for vinyl notwithstanding, I have learned my lesson and will be quite happily residing in digital heaven for the rest of my days on earth (Where I go after that is another story).
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