Thanks for posting those links - fascinating.
All subjective I know. To my ears the Youtube version sounds like it is the same as the one found on Qobuz labelled as a hi-res remastering. You can find on Qobuz the same piece without that remastering badge and at red book and when I asked my daughter’s young and very musical ears which of these two she preferred she said the standard res version sounded “fuller and richer”. She also thought the Youtube copy sounded closest to the hi res badged version we found. (The youtube was airplayed to the system so was red book).
We then played the same piece from your website. Sorry to say, the two young faces and my old face in the room screwed up - “yuk”. Nobody liked the noise, nor the sound. One comment was “it sounds ancient and like it’s being played through a sock”.
Only opinions and everyone has their preferences. My family is not conditioned to the vinyl sound, for sure.
But the point must be that when differences between youtube, Qobuz, and masterings, and vinyl copies are so large, how can the tiny effects of wire directionality matter much? No amount of wire fiddling is going to clean that dull and noisy vinyl...
All subjective I know. To my ears the Youtube version sounds like it is the same as the one found on Qobuz labelled as a hi-res remastering. You can find on Qobuz the same piece without that remastering badge and at red book and when I asked my daughter’s young and very musical ears which of these two she preferred she said the standard res version sounded “fuller and richer”. She also thought the Youtube copy sounded closest to the hi res badged version we found. (The youtube was airplayed to the system so was red book).
We then played the same piece from your website. Sorry to say, the two young faces and my old face in the room screwed up - “yuk”. Nobody liked the noise, nor the sound. One comment was “it sounds ancient and like it’s being played through a sock”.
Only opinions and everyone has their preferences. My family is not conditioned to the vinyl sound, for sure.
But the point must be that when differences between youtube, Qobuz, and masterings, and vinyl copies are so large, how can the tiny effects of wire directionality matter much? No amount of wire fiddling is going to clean that dull and noisy vinyl...