This thread has become tiresome to me. I think I’m going to listen to some musical bliss with some vinyl.
I am just wondering if some of the participants here, not to name them, have enough experience to even know what they want.
Maybe a little bit more humility and less of a footprint. It ok not to know about all things, but do you have to flaunt it constantly!Dude
What do you want from me?
That is not completely true but okay.Considering that most if not all vinyl lps are cut from digital masters, you may be beating a dead horse.
I have a couple records that I also can find on streaming. I can't tell them apart on my system. I have brought them to friends and done the same test on stereo that would be considered very high end. Some $300k type stuff. Again, we could not tell the difference. The point being, what impact does going from digital to vinyl have. Also, what impact does going from a possible 36x384 or higher to 16x44.1 have. And, what did the company that makes a disc do? I had a friend who gave me his CD. I explained why it sounded like crap. He went back to the studio and they noted the master did not sound like the CD. Turns out the company putting the files to CD made their own alterations. Point being, there appears to be some stepping on a file from what is mastered in the control room to what is available to stream or on a disc.
Theoretically there shouldn't be a difference especially with hi res digital .
But obviously there could be a less than perfect transfer in some cases
I thought this thread is about discussing the advantages and disadvantages of vinyl and digital@AudioGod I believe the applicable metaphor is: you're pissing into the wind. Best regards...
Now you are playing the victim card after alienating so many. Ignored!It's so horrible of me
To bring relevant facts into a discussion
I would like to say I'm sorry to anyone here.
Why is it not possible to know whether the reproduction is accurate or close to accurate or not? When you record something in your studio and then play it back at home, you can tell whether your system has reproduced the music close to how you heard in the mastering studio, right?It is perhaps not possible to know what is "accurate", but it is certainly possible to know what is inaccurate. Anything that has non-linearity in frequency, phase and/or dynamic response is inaccurate.
As it is not my personal objective, I am not well-qualified to answer your question. Perhaps Chuck can answer.How is one able to judge success in this specific audio objective? I understand about theoretical objectives and your attempts to categorize, but this one would seem more objective than subjective, and I do not understand how we could ever know how close we are so it seems like an elusive quest.
If what you are saying means you need an inaccurate reproduction of the signal in order to sound "musical", just how inaccurate does it have to be ?
+1The original recording doesn’t make a sound unless it is played through a system. Each system is different, so how can we ever know with the original sounds like?
As it is not my personal objective, I am not well-qualified to answer your question. Perhaps Chuck can answer.
it is on my list of possible high-end audio objectives because I believe it to be the conceptual objective of many audiophiles.
Ron, I thought it was one of four specific goals you came up with. You defined them and I had assumed you could explain them. I am simply asking if it makes any sense.