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is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl

sam here with another question. is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl ? i realize i'm gonna get ripped a new a-hole however this is not a joke question. honest answers please i can take the heat

as crazy as it sounds it seams perfectly logical to me. now here is what i did using my 2013 dell pc windows 7 32bit.

using foobar 2000 with the convolver dsp filter i made an impulse file consisting of a 1 second wave file extracted at 32 / 88 

from the intro to pink floyds us and them on 1st press vintage vinyl u.k harvest label. just the surface noise before the music 

starts and applied the impulse file to a digital album to see if the digital album now sounds like vintage vinyl.here's the results

not sure if i made the digital audio sound worse or really what i achieved ? feedback will help me decide if i should

abandoned this pipe dream and move on. source is digital download flac 16/44 same source for both before/after samples.

audio sample 1: http://pc.cd/GB3

audio sample 2 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/7eA

audio sample 3: http://pc.cd/7DP7

audio sample 4 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/bw2

audio sample 5: http://pc.cd/3etrtalK

audio sample 6 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/lTf7
guitarsam
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tomic601
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I respect Mike for sure and have myself gone down the triple path of high speed tape, Digital and LP. The quality of the A2D converter is everything, I use three: Wadia 17, Pro4000 and an Ayre..... they all sound different thru the same Aesthetix DAC.....
the formats have various strengths and weaknesses, iF you think digital can’t throw a massively deep soundstage look no further than 2L the Nordic Sound :-)

Fun, enjoy the music not the dogma 


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tomic601
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I will say one thing that really cracks me up is all this argument about lossy formats when listening to mid ranges that are out of phase ( breakup ) 1/3 of the time.....


guitarsam OP
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sam here when i made this post i was referring to a very specific sound that vinyl creates and i don’t care what kind of turntable setup you have there is an indefinable sound and that’s what i was trying to create. no i don’t think i’m there yet however i will keep trying and posting my before/after results to get feedback from the experts. i suppose if i was less nieve i would just accept the facts and move on however i can’t help but believe i will one day hit on the magic combination friends.
dgarretson
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Personally I have no interest in flavoring digital files to simulate the "vinyl sound." It is more interesting that an ADC can accurately transfer the "sound" of an LP to a hires digital format. If successful, this demonstrates that the vinyl source is an affectation, but a pleasing one.

I record vinyl to DSD128 on a modified TASCAM DA-3000 synchronized to a Stanford Research 10Mhz rubidium clock powered by a Paul Hynes SR7. It’s a labor-intensive process that is worth getting right once and for all with the best equipment you can afford.
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millercarbon
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sam here when i made this post i was referring to a very specific sound that vinyl creates and i don’t care what kind of turntable setup you have there is an indefinable sound and that’s what i was trying to create. no i don’t think i’m there yet however i will keep trying and posting my before/after results to get feedback from the experts. i suppose if i was less nieve i would just accept the facts and move on however i can’t help but believe i will one day hit on the magic combination friends.

So really you just want to define the program that will recreate the indefinable. Magic, indeed.

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