Audio Note discovered that many years ago.
if you remove 100% brick wall limiting from digital audio will it sound like vinyl
Sam here again and I've noticed the less digital brick wall limiting an album has, the more it sounds like vinyl. If you remove all the brick wall limiting for the loudness wars will it sound the same as vinyl? And if upsampling to dsd moves the noise well above 22khz will downsampling back to 16/44 flac using a high pass filter to remove all noise above 22khz remove the digital brick limiting and sound more like vinyl.
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Sam here thanks for the responses. Please let me clarify. There is a very specific sound that vintage vinyl produces and it has nothing to do with digital vs analog or vinyl vs CD. When I listen to digital audio I hear clearly defined left and right stereo channels and when I listen to vintage vinyl (1950's,60's,70's,80's) the left and right stereo channels blend with the center to create a 3d stereo depth perception that I don't hear on digital audio or new remastered vinyl. what i mean by brick wall limiting is compression for the loudness wars. https://postimg.cc/wRzpBBvD mastering engineer bob katz declaired the loudness wars are over? https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/end-loudness-war Sorry bob the loudness war is not over! The ebu128 loudness standard does nothing but reduce the volume. Look at this photo taken from the bob Katz article https://postimg.cc/XrPkFH5Y The over compressed audio is unlistenable. The overcompressed audio with ebu128 applied is unlistenable? The concept here is why apply compression when ebu128 is just going to lower the volume? Because the agenda all along had nothing to do with the loudness wars and everything to do with destroying the sound quality. to remove the healing effects of the hypersonic effect. The quest continues |
It’s more complicated. There are inherent problems with CD playback, always have been. The top three problems are scattered laser light getting onto the photodetector, external vibration affecting the laser assembly suspension as well as the electronics, fluttering and vibration of the disc Itself due to not being level during play and out-of-round CDs. |
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