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  1. Of course everything needs to be remastered in high resolution digital for there to be valid comparisons... but for a decade or two people said (and some still do) that 44.1k/16 bit was "transparent to the source" and clearly superior to vinyl, yet my listening told me otherwise. It was a maddening 20 years! Opinions have come around! The 192k/24 bit conversions with RIAA in the digital domain using Pure Vinyl are exceptionally good...and depending on the phono preamp with RIAA uses for comparison, can be superior to 'live' analog playback...but I still prefer the AAA feed using a really good phono preamp... Had "CD" been 96/24 or higher, I'd have been on board but when CDs came out and sounded uniformly inferior to good LP playback and critics said they sounded much better it was a maddening period of time. A well known mastering engineer who had remastered to CD the entire catalog of a well known 80s artist and was convinced it was excellent and better than the LPs, came over and we did some direct comparisons. His face fell..... You might find interesting/amusing this MTV clip from 1993...I found myself in some pretty good company! BTW: I find this forum populated by really nice, level headed folks compared to some I've joined where I find myself reflexively attacked as if I was an ant from a competing hill!... If you email me through my website (www.musicangle.com) I can email you an MP3 or two from vinyl that even compressed sound really good. People who get them say they sound better than the CD version too!
  2. You're right. It doesn't. Nonetheless whenever I'm at a hi-fi show and I walk in a room playing a commercial CD of something I happen to have on CD transferred from vinyl (like Rickie Lee Jones' "Pop Pop" for instance, or something from Simon and Garfunkel or Led Zep), I say "I have a different version on this CD...." and they play it. I don't say it's from vinyl and you don't hear any noise of giveways either that it's a "needle drop" (hate the expression)...and the reaction is always WHAT VERSION IS THAT? IT SOUNDS SO MUCH BETTER!)... This happens all the time. I once played a "needle drop" of "Stairway to Heaven" "dropped" from a 12" 45rpm version in a big room filled with a lot of people (and a big system). When it ended, the room burst into applause and people said they'd never heard "Stairway..." sound so good... then I tell them it was from vinyl and some are surprised and some not... "euphonic colorations?" I don't know. I don't care. It sounds more "real." BTW: Paul Simon's engineer Roy Halee prefers listening to vinyl over any digital format...and he's heard enough master tapes.... I say, go with what you like...but when people visit me and I play them digital and analog, invariably they say the TT sounds better. I compared the 96k/24 bit download of "Raising Sand" versus the LP for some fans of the music who are not audio nuts and they thought the record sounded much more real.... Once, Greg Calbi, who mastered "Graceland" when it first came out, paid a visit and I played him a track from the LP using a ridiculously expensive turntable that I own and he said he heard more from the record than he'd originally heard from the master tape! That's because the rest of my system is far more resolving than what he used for playback in 1985...but still it shows that vinyl can extract a lot of information... not that it makes any sense... Pure Vinyl is great though...I just reviewed it for Stereophile...published in a few months.
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