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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

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guitarsam
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cakyol
940 posts
 
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
1,811 posts
 
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.
lewm
13,043 posts
 
Cakyol, pops, crackles, clicks, and rumble occur at frequencies well below 20kHz, the standard upper boundary of human audibility where the vast majority of us don’t hear. Well done Hi-Rez digital gets you more information in the audible range, ideally., Thereby approaching the fidelity of very high quality vinyl reproduction. For some, Hi-Rez digital exceeds very high-quality vinyl in that regard. All of that is a matter of opinion and the subject of an argument in which I do not engage.
bondmanp
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@lewm With my Sugarcube, 95% of the clicks and pops are removed with no sonic penalty that I can hear.  Next year, I hope to upgrade my SC-2 to "+" status, which adds surface noise reduction algorithms.  The gap continues to close, but it's like atomic half lives, it will never vanish completely, IMHO.
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