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RE: About depth of field with digital

Heppe,

The music tracks on Sheffield are the best tests. If you can get what you want with Sheffield you're done, others CD's will reveal what's in it then.

As you know every minus 6 dB on CD means 1 bit less resolution. Ambiance, "depth", natural sound rendering all are minus 20 to minus 60 dB very low level signal. These can't be reproduced like with the best analogue recordings, vinyl, reel to reel. That's why "depth" on CD is alway's artificially added by digital sound processors to suggest some depth/ambiance, even on reissues. And that sounds not right.
So don't be disappointed if you don't get things like you have in your mind. Fiddle around with Audacity to observe the frequency's above 1 kHz and their levels. (Spectrum analizer) You'll see the very low levels, calculate the resolution and you'll see for yourself. Digital is the best format for convenience, but a major setback in soundquality after the best analogue formats/recordings/ platters.

I say this after 25 years of CD's, upgrading, tweaking, buying remastered CD's. For pure musical enjoyment it never topped my 45's, 331/3 and even 78's that I collected since the late 50-ties. CD's give me listening fatigue, since more than 15 years I stopped buying CD's because of dynamic compression except some CD's that are good.

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