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In Reply to: Can A good CD player sound like vinyl? posted by jseverino50 on January 3, 2012 at 23:46:56:
Each medium as it's own sound due to many factors. Arm, Turntable Base, stylus used and so forth. Digital the DAC's, Power Supply, Noise and so forth.In the end there no winner regardless of BS is being used by the major mags. It all goes back to the mastering and care taken, polarity is correct on either medium, CD's have issues with inverted polairty, Opus 3 lable is one that really comes to mind, Jazz At The Pawnshop, if you own this CD flip the + & - speaker cables at the amp end then take another listen.
I once sold a great preamp because my current preamp back then was phase inverted and this LP played back on that smoked my counter point due to that unit being in proper phase thus Jazz sound thin, and cold, with all detail and not much body to the music, sounds like poor digital!if it suffers the same inverted polarity.
The one real and no BS that LP's have over digital is from the golden ERA of music 50's to mid 60's, if you have one of the 1st 100,000 pressing that came from the mother master tape, your got about as good as that recording can sound if the vinyl is still in good shape, if your lp in the bottom corner says RE then best of luck with the sound quality because it can be good to really poor sounding.
Digital today as when it started still has to deal with tapes that have aged 50, well almost 60 years now, when the CD was mastered what tape was found that could be used did they even find the master tape or for that matter the inferior back up tape. In the early days to get the product to the market, they used anything, thus 3 and 4 or reissues of the same titles.
In many cases they be better off just mastering from a LP. Chances are they sound better due to the source being better than the tape found.
If care is taken in the mastering (Something that is dying out) and in either format the final pressing, you can have great sound. CD will sound no better than the source, and in the end your taste in coloration of the event. Thus your turntable platter, the arm, and stylus and it's own form of distortion and phase shifts give you the sound that you will choose and there is nothing wrong with that it part of the beast so to speak.
Build your system to your liking then set back and enjoy the music. After this year I no longer will purhcase audio mags. They no longer speak the truth, and like poltical folks they change in the wind.
They want to try to get a younger generation that was raised on computers, so down load is the new hip thing, but if you got 1,000's of CD, work with your system and most of all your room, cut back noise in your system and your CD well sound fresh and enjoyable. Cardas caps for the unsed RCA outs on the CD player, Unused digital outs terminated as well as unused BNC. Preamp unsued inputs Cardas cap them, if balanced cables are used throughout the system then cap the RCA input at the amp. output on the CD player.
Then small mico details,and dyamics and air and bloom came forth out of a fog of noise. Remember vinyl does not have as much electronics at all to deal with like the CD player, sort of like a full preamp vs. a passive preamp. But you cut down the noise level, make sure you check the playbak polarity of the CD if it sounds poor, takes a few seconds, then if inverted mark the CD case with a "R". If not inverted leave the CD cas blank, because all you really care about is know what CD's are inverted.
And if your back into vinyl enjoy it also, it will go as the boomers die off as well will this hobby as we know, it has already started the turn to ultra rich who can afford $$$$$ in equipement per piece.
The hobby was about music enjoyment at one time. Now it about the gear, poor music, poor mastering, and let's face it, pop, rap, hip-hop, and today's over produced music does not need highend gear to sound good, it not designed around good sound, and this no knock about the music, it just what the music is and how it is recorded and the sound it is designed to reproduce.
Again, pick your format and enjoy it, and all can sound really good with some care taken for equipment setup as well as sonic of your room.
PJB
Edits: 01/06/12
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