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can i recreate the sound of vinyl by encoding the vinyl frequencies onto digital audio?

Sam here and if all audio is made up of frequencies and i extract the frequencies from a 1st press vinyl album known for it's audiophile sound quality like pink floyd dark side of the moon or miles davis kind of blue and encode those frequencies onto digital audio will the digital audio now take on all the sound charactoristics of the 1st press vinyl including not sounding like digital audio anymore? of course it's not going to be indentical in sound however the overall sound texture that made  the vinyl stand out will now be present and noticable on the digital version. here are the audio samples from my experiment you can decide which sample had the vinyl frequencies applied.

pink floyd - meddle album - st.tropez - u.k harvest 1st press vinyl 24/96 (1971) http://u.pc.cd/HeKitalK

nick leng - lemons 2020: http://u.pc.cd/yoK

nick leng - lemons 2020: http://u.pc.cd/hzactalK

click here for the answer https://i.postimg.cc/fWHXQfLd/qwerty.png
guitarsam
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clearthinker
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Show us the way mapman!
You are so correct that 99% of vinyl of new music comes from performance recorded to digital.  So the vinyl contains the virus.  And nor can it sound better than the digital master except by adding artifacts that are judged to make the sound more pleasant.

It remains a pity that almost nothing new is now recorded AAA, even by believers.  Given the resurgence of vinyl, this is perhaps a seam that can profitably be mined.
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clearthinker
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Sorry guitarsam, my post was entirely clear and you add nothing by repeating your proposition with re-emphasis.
Put up or shut up with your backyard guitar.  Nobody's ever heard it.
So perhaps subject it to a double blind listening test.
luisma31
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It remains a pity that almost nothing new is now recorded AAA, even by believers. Given the resurgence of vinyl, this is perhaps a seam that can profitably be mined.
Sad but true, although I am seeing a "market" for D2D but it is insignificant and just pursue by some people so this market is a boutique business which could be lucrative but not worth pursuing (from the money perspective)



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cakyol
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Of course.

You can digitize all sounds. Especially the sounds in the audio range.
Typically sampling at 44khz (CD quality) is good enuf.
If you want to be really picky and claim you can hear above the normal human range of hearing, then sample at a higher rate and you will hear every pop, crackle, click and rumble, perfectly reproduced.

bondmanp
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IME, the answer for the OP is no, but...

I have been gradually digitizing my vinyl to put on my server for many years.  Currently, I digitize at 96/24 FLAC on my Sweetvinyl Sugarcube SC-2.  While I don't see the digital files as equal to the vinyl when played back, it's fairly close.  One thing I would say is that more often than not, I prefer the digitized vinyl to bog standard CDs of the same albums. Make that just about all the time. Since I can't afford to buy lots of hi res downloads or a streaming hi res service, this is, for me, the best way to have high quality music available on my server for when I don't want to bother with finding, cleaning and playing LPs, which is almost always.  YMMV.
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