Nailed it.
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there is more to music than soundstaging and spatial clues. there is not only timbre, but tonal density, flow, scale, weight, authority, bloom, bass articulation and tone leading edge cohesiveness, and decay. there is cohesion at high SPL’s. and all together the realism, suspension of disbelief, emotive content and human touch. as far as what digitizing and application of dsp does to an analog signal, the only way to know is to compare it directly to the pure analog signal. and highest level vinyl, tape or even digital contains musicality that gets lost at each adc/dac stage. Bernie Grundman said it best, every time a signal is processed digitally something is lost, and there is no recovery. you might add something, or change something, but you also lost something. nothing is free. no doubt there are great things with dsp and perfect situations for dsp. when i see very high level analog sources in systems with these ultra dsp processes i pay close attention. but when i don’t, then the result is not that relevant to me. the proper reference is missing. i have top level analog, and also the highest level digital too. and let’s face it, whether BACCH dsp digital, or all analog, these are all very high level music making processes. this is not good and bad, this is all degrees of good. but splitting hairs is what we do in this hobby. what we are passionate about. |
For most any newer artist, the official studio master is a pristine sounding hires digital album. An orthodox medium loyalist/vinyl guy would botch/butcher that pristine sounding master and press it on vinyl so he can taste the analog. If, he's stuck in a vintage artist time warp with a strange belief that all newer artists suck (except for the vintage artists spinning on the vinyl that he grew up with), a turntable makes sense. |
i generally prefer the original digital master to the Lp made from it, but we don't always get the chance to own that low gen digital master, so the result is variable. so generalizing is hard. but unless you sample the choices and compare, you really don't know. in any case i'm always wanting the native file or native analog recording. the less mucked up the better. which is why dsp is a non starter for me. |
@mikelavigne , check out this video on upmixing from audioholics
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