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Can anything be down about this? There must be an agenda!

Remastered digital download flac 16/44 have a look at the waveform https://i.postimg.cc/FzXBKzXh/capture-20200716-054246.jpg

1st press vinyl 24/96 1977 https://i.postimg.cc/Lsdfw1t4/s2.jpg

Can somebody anybody tell me how to get rid of this? This is not an isolated case friends this is the norm. Everytime a waveform looks like sample 1 the music is unlistenable! l love the convenience of digital audio however what good is convenience if it's unlistenable? There must be a filter or plugin that can reverse this and make the digital waveform look like the 1st press vinyl waveform.l know i'm late to the game however in 2020 somebody should have come of with something by now?
guitarsam
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guitarsam,

Sorry mate, but it was a long time ago when we just went to the store and bought the latest LP. Poor/careless mastering has been the biggest issue with digital for the last 30 years!

You might do better to go on personal recommendations from others who have checked out and compared different masterings of the same material you're interested in.

Hence also the existence of sites like this one.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/forums/music-corner.2/
ricmci
219 posts
 
Sorry Sam, but it is called survival of the fittest The best moves on. The rest move into musical oblivion. The arguments don't matter on the internet. The best is the most Google hits and vice-versa.
vittles
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In the analog age, original master tape recordings were 16bit/48 kHz. Vinyl LPs were pressed from these sources. I record all my computer audio files as DSD or AIFF at 16bit/48 kHz and they all sound fabulous via a good DAC. So, if you want hear the sound as it was in the recording studio,  such audio files are IMHO the best for audio reproduction and listening pleasure. 
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pjr801
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It was worse at the introduction of digital where unforgiving brightness and loss of bass were explained away as the fault of the playback hardware.The upside is the availability of albums which had been deleted from pressing long ago
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millercarbon
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A secret meeting was held on Jeckyl Island in which the titans of the music industry agreed to keep secret the details of how to make perfect digital. They all knew the key to long term profits was to slowly and gradually year by year go from absolute crap to slightly less absolute crap. Occasionally one will get out ahead of the others and come up with something only moderately crappy and when this happens they charge an arm and a leg. Which is cheap, because they all know if the secret ever gets out it will cost them their heads.

So that is what they have been doing for 30 years now. Analysts keep saying this cannot go on forever that people will figure out there's no there there. But so far even Michael Fremer literally saying there's no there there hasn't done anything, so it would appear the scam can continue on for quite some time.

I have it on good authority the code for perfect digital is stored in Al Capones vault, right along side the recipe for Coca-Cola. 
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