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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
rbstehno
1,479 posts
 
Not all vinyl sounds good! Not all digital sounds good. It depends on a lot of things, namely more $$$ for analog equipment before it starts sounding really good. A good phono preamp is going to cost you thousands, cartridge thousands, tonearm thousands, turntable thousands, accessories hundreds/thousands. Digital many thousands for a good dac.
IME, it will cost you At least 2-3x more money for an analog setup than an equivalent Redbook digital setup, equal not better. Then when you can do hires/dsd/MQA, then digital surpasses analog and you will need to spend much more money on an analog setup to compare to hires digital
heaudio123
689 posts
 
rbstehno, but this is not a thread of which is better, it is a thread about achieving a vinyl "like" sound which the op has a personal preference for, and which many have a personal preference for. There may even be some poorly understood underlying technical issues why vinyl (likely the channel separation issue) is more pleasing to some.
johnss
582 posts
 
@guitarsam, yes quite easy. since storage is really inexpensive these days, I would toss FLAC and move towards compression free WAV. I have a small library of 24/96 WAV files. If you contact me off line, will be happy to snail mail you a stick full of samples.

best

bigkidz
3,404 posts
 
Yes and no. Our DAC will out perform most analog systems but once you hear our phono, all bests are off,


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tony1954
1,121 posts
 
It seems to me that the goal isn't to make digital sound like vinyl.The goal is to make digital sound like real instruments and human voices.
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