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RE: "so who cares?"

Posted by Thorsten (M) on June 17, 2015 at 10:09:13

In Reply to: RE: "so who cares?" posted by genungo on June 17, 2015 at 09:42:00:

Hi,

Love Vinyl. I cut my Sound Engineer teeth on Tape and Vinyl.

Many great recordings that despite the 75dB (appx.) limit of LP put most Seedee (CD) recordings/remasters to shame for realism and dynamic range. Always wonder what these recordings would have sounded like on a Pacific Microsonic Model 2 in digital (176.4/24, no oversampling)...

Never got attached to Seedee's (CD's), ruddy bad sounding coffee coasters... If analogue goodness re-mastered for Seedee (CD), worse, I mean they managed to screw up Madonna, fer chrissake.

Though the original Dire Straights Tunnel of Love Album on Seedee beats the LP, narrowly, even early mother and stamper numbers.

The remastered versions are uniformly awefull (including LP) but the DSD sounds great (I usually dislike DSD a fair bit), so I kept the DSD and deleted the rest.

Yes, this is the album with the album where Mark Knopfler famously "makes a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink."

Which makes two of us, me and all the angels that can dance on the point of a needle. Okay three, my Girl also needs a drink, make it Wolf Blass (shoutout to a fellow ex-east german) directors selection Red all 'round.

If music has to be Deegeetaal (sounds like an aweful curry), can I have 176.4/24 recorded using Pacific Microsonic Model 2?

Seedee?

Who ever cared? I have around 30% of my music in Deegeetaal HD, the rest selected early Seedee pressing rips, Vinyl Rip etc. Of course it resides in a custom PeeSee (PC) with 9TB Raid 5 for music.

The PeeSee never sounds better than the source, but over a decade plus I figured how to make sure it sounds no worse.

Thor

At 20 bits, you are on the verge of dynamic range covering fly-farts-at-20-feet to intolerable pain. Really, what more could we need?

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