Worth pursuing analog sound from digital?
Dear @jaferd and friends:Other advantage for digital and disadvantage for LP is that as everything in digital ( celphones, computers, audio, etc. ) " almost every day " are new advances in the overall digital technology and seems that that digital trend is endless. In the other side LP has not that kind of development, as a fact the LP " technology " is steady for many years now: just stop it, there are nothing really new on cartridges, TTs, tonearms or the LP it self. Only tiny tiny refiniments that at the end is more of the same. Has no future as true up-grades/up-dates like digital. For years the best recordings came from D2D recordings ( Sheffield Labs or M&K. ) or those " one side only " Clarity Recordings and Stereophile ones or the DMM by Stockfish or the vintage MoFi UHQR or even the digital LPs from the late 70's early 80's like Telarc or Delos or Denon PCM that 70%-80% of them performs really good and not easy to detect are digital recordings and when digital was just in the begining. I own several titles of all those kind of recordings that are in a different league that any other LPs. The last D2D samples I bought came from Acoustic Sounds and are nothing special the old ones named were a lot better recordings. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
jaferd OP Is this laser-reading problem something that has been studied and corroborated? Is this a problem if the data is read from a hard drive or flash drive? im no electronic engineer but can’t they make the laser processor more specific and less sensitive to avoid the misreads? >>>>The laser-reading problem has been discussed before but usually in regards to tracking and the servo tracking mechanism, which apparently stalls out and becomes ineffective under duress, which is IMHO almost all the time since the CD flutters and vibrates during play for a variety of reasons. I don’t think much has been done with regards to scattered background with the exception of the Green Pen. I have a product that absorbs infrared (invisible) scattered light, which is the only such product extant. Vibration has obviously been studied more, e.g., vibration isolation and damping discs, etc. |
I think you can get really nice sound from both vinyl and digital sources, so yes, it certainly is worth pursuing the best sound you can afford/get from digital. There are many recordings that I have on LP that sound better than the digital version, but, I suspect that has more to do with the mastering and deterioration of the original analogue tape masters than it has to do with inherent differences in the recording medium. I say this because there are also many digital remasters that I have that DO sound very good. I also have many digital remasters that sound substantially better than my vinyl original releases, probably because the re-mastering was superior to the original mastering for vinyl production (1970's DG classical recordings usually sound better in the digital versions). Given that very little of current classical recordings ever come out on vinyl (same with current jazz), and given that most current popular recordings are originally done digitally even if they are also issued on vinyl, and given that a vast catalog of older recordings is available digitally and easier to find in that form than the analogue originals (in good shape anyway), it makes sense to actually make good digital playback a priority. |
