01-25-08: Gaslover said:
"Even in the unlikely scenario vinyl were to make any sort of a comeback, there would be the unfortunate digital pollution somewhere in the recording or mixdown chain. The possibility of being able to purchase purely analog LP's on any mass market scale is remote, other than the specialty labels currently doing this. We are dinosaurs, albeit smug and happy ones."
Yes, but it's not as dire as you may suspect. DSD at 5.6MHz is truly incredible. I don't mind that in the recording chain, at all. In fact, I'm archiving my D2D vinyl in 1-bit DSD at 5.6. Now all I need is a music server that can handle that. There's little hope that there'll be a 5.6 server but maybe DVD-A level will show up in the next year. I'm watching and waiting.
Lots of people are declaring DVD-A dead, but I think it's open format nature may just help it survive. I'm getting great results recording vinyl at that level and creating my own DVD-As and/or downconverting to Apple lossless to get it into my iPhone for travel. It's incredible.
Dave
"Even in the unlikely scenario vinyl were to make any sort of a comeback, there would be the unfortunate digital pollution somewhere in the recording or mixdown chain. The possibility of being able to purchase purely analog LP's on any mass market scale is remote, other than the specialty labels currently doing this. We are dinosaurs, albeit smug and happy ones."
Yes, but it's not as dire as you may suspect. DSD at 5.6MHz is truly incredible. I don't mind that in the recording chain, at all. In fact, I'm archiving my D2D vinyl in 1-bit DSD at 5.6. Now all I need is a music server that can handle that. There's little hope that there'll be a 5.6 server but maybe DVD-A level will show up in the next year. I'm watching and waiting.
Lots of people are declaring DVD-A dead, but I think it's open format nature may just help it survive. I'm getting great results recording vinyl at that level and creating my own DVD-As and/or downconverting to Apple lossless to get it into my iPhone for travel. It's incredible.
Dave