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In Reply to: RE: Article Itself Has Some Fallacies...... posted by Tony Lauck on October 09, 2015 at 18:40:44
>"If you are forced to listening to the end product in various formats, you can not possibly judge the issues."
If you mean how close it is to a mic feed, then you got me on that one. If you mean a enthusiast can't pick out which format sounds best, then I don't agree. They have apple pie bake-offs all the time, and award blue ribbons. The tasting judges usually aren't professionals, just people who like apple pie. I wouldn't be surprised if they get on forums, and talk about apple pie.
Of course we all know that in the end the market will decide.
For the record I have made rips from vinyl, and even used various ways to declick them, none of which I liked. I prefer the raw recording. Still that's very little experience. It's only at the enthusiast level.
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If you are comparing two different recordings in two separate formats then it will be difficult to impossible to attribute differences to the formats. Indeed, most likely, the differences are due to the recordings, maybe even the music and the musicians.If you are comparing two different releases of the same recording in different formats, then it is likely that the mastering and later remastering were done on different dates, by different engineers using different equipment. The musicians and original recording have been removed from possible causes of differences, but a new variable may have been added, physical deterioration of the master tape over the years.
If you are lucky and you have through documentation of the mastering process for two formats then as a listener it may be possible to remove some of the possible sources of confusion. In some cases, there are copies of the same master tape that is played twice and recorded with the identical ADC at two sample rates. If you then play these two recordings back on the same DAC you will have removed most variables from the equation.
It is simpler, faster and more reliable to do format conversions yourself, either with live recordings or various extant recordings. It is then possible to do real experimentation (as in physics) and not historical analysis (as in archaeology).
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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Something tells me that the avenues of perception betwixt eardrum and brain are not only more wayward, but more potholed too. In fact, it could almost be said that the tongue is more like a waterslide than a roadway.
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"Betwixt"?
Did you really use that word?
;)
There's no need to pull eyesight into this fracas, two out of six senses are more than plenty.
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