Acoustics experts - a little help please

@deep_333  I have around a dozen of SW's 5.1 surround sound remixes and I'm a big fan (have not heard Atmos mixes of those yet of course). I wish Giles Martin had even half Wilson's skill at this.

I have zero interest in running my records thru object oriented surround sound extraction.  I'm happy to leave such separation to people with more skill and access to the multitracks.  Also, running 50 year old vinyl thru 50-65 year old electronics makes way more sense to me than to digitize them.

It's a rarity that a CD version of a vintage recording pleases me as much as the vinyl cut straight from tape (there are a tiny handful of exceptions where the original vinyl was botched - one example: Badfinger 'Ass' sounded pretty bad when released, the 2010 cd is a profound improvement..

 @thom_oz  It would be silly to put the output of a turntable/phonostage through any ADC conversion for a different eco-system. Keep it as is...

But, as we both know, vinyl either came from master tape or a hires digital studio master.

If you like the sound of analog master tape...there is a solution to get the sound of analog master tape from any digital file. It could be files ripped from a CD,  hires files bought from qobuz, etc.

You can put such files through Mark Levinson’s/Daniel Hertz Master Class Software. It converts the file and produces the sound of analog master tape (whatever the secret sauce is). Such files can be played in stereo, sent to Bacch, sent to a atmos processor and extracted into a multi speaker array, etc. The sound of  master tape remains....

If you bought a daniel hertz streamer/dac, above mention function to get the sound of master tape is built in. Otherwise.. software it it..

@deep_333 I have around a dozen of SW’s 5.1 surround sound remixes and I’m a big fan (have not heard Atmos mixes of those yet of course). I wish Giles Martin had even half Wilson’s skill at this.

I have zero interest in running my records thru object oriented surround sound extraction. I’m happy to leave such separation to people with more skill and access to the multitracks. Also, running 50 year old vinyl thru 50-65 year old electronics makes way more sense to me than to digitize them.

It’s a rarity that a CD version of a vintage recording pleases me as much as the vinyl cut straight from tape (there are a tiny handful of exceptions where the original vinyl was botched - one example: Badfinger ’Ass’ sounded pretty bad when released, the 2010 cd is a profound improvement..

I made a radical change. My music room is connected to a dining room and I've always had my speakers set up on the long wall of the music room. Had an epiphany and decided to treat the two rooms as one room and move the speakers to the 1/2 way point between the rooms and eliminating the stuff between the speakers. The front wall is now 12 feet behind the speakers. My soundstage is now 3D. Everything sounds completely different and better. My dining room is now a room with musicians in it. New setup photo in my virtual system pics.   

Congratulations. Experimentation is frequently rewarded. Once in a while I'll do something big as well. I can see how that could work. Added bonus, the view is more open. 

re: "You can put such files through Mark Levinson’s/Daniel Hertz Master Class Software"

Call me a doubter on this one LOL. Just switching from a MM or MC cart to the DS Audio (high output optical cartridge) system HAS to be a much bigger improvement than running the recording thru my usual signal chain and processing it thru software. Loss is loss, the information is just gone.