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In Reply to: Analog -to- 24/96 PCM -to- analog is transparent to human hearing posted by Feanor on February 6, 2007 at 07:32:51:
1. Take a live feed, convert it to digital, and back to analog, and listen to it. Does it sound as good as the original feed? Clearly not, even with the best equipment.2. Take your record player and phono amp output, do A/D and D/A, and listen. Does it sound as good? No. You recognize the digital nasties after a while.
3. Take your CD player, play a CD (which of course has already been encoded into digital) do some additional D/D and D/A processing. Now that IS likely to sound not significantly worse than playing the CD straight out of the analog outs of the CD player, but with added jitter, RFI, etc. as TK pointed out. I think this is the question you originally asked.
If you want to do digital EQ, best to start with an already digitized source. Digitizing the signal from your phono preamp might be interesting in terms of manipulating frequency equalization, but you will lose most of what is good about analog.
Fremer's experiments with SOTA analog discs, TTs and preamps notwithstanding....he was essentially remastering and improving the quality of poor CD masters.
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Follow Ups
- You're asking 3 different questions at once - Tom Schuman 04:21:51 02/08/07 (3)
- Thank you!! - Feanor 11:55:39 02/08/07 (2)
- Re: Thank you!! - Tom Schuman 12:18:57 02/08/07 (1)
- agreed with you Tom - Vince S 02:47:06 02/09/07 (0)
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