In Reply to: RE: I definitely hear a difference. posted by Goober58 on April 9, 2014 at 09:40:53:
Well, OK, but remember that the key issue was whether you think that a well recorded LP saved at 24/96 or 24/192 will sound better than the "same" recording on CD.Or, to put it differently, and with consideration for the fact that the LP track is now a 24/96 digital file, does that sound better than 16/14.4?
That's really the focus, and the reason for the title of the original post.
There's more details in one of my posts from a while ago at the link but the short story is that I have a number of LP's and the same title on CD. I've ripped the CD's to 16/14.4 FLAC. I've recorded the LP's and ended up with a 24/96 FLAC.
I can play and "compare" the two, but what I'm looking for is depth, soundstage placement of instruments and the presence or absence of subtle details. With the 24/96 I hear things that I don't on the CD track, or I hear them noticeably different.
What's that worth as a scientific experiment? Nothing. But, the question was this, does the high resolution file sound better than the CD version.
A better test would be to compare an HD download file of a particular track and compare that to the CD track. But, that download will be suspect in two areas - the type and quality of the source material and whether it's just an upsampled CD track.
The only controls that I have for my experiment are what's been detailed here. I suppose I could save the LP track at 16/14.4 and compare that to the CD, but that's not my goal.
My goal is to record all of my LP's and then to save them in a digital format that I think gives great resolution that sounds like the original LP while still having a manageable file size.
Hope this helps.
Edits: 04/09/14 04/09/14
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Follow Ups
- RE: I definitely hear a difference. - StephenJK 10:52:51 04/09/14 (9)
- RE: I definitely hear a difference. - Goober58 11:16:33 04/09/14 (8)
- RE: I definitely hear a difference. - StephenJK 12:58:20 04/09/14 (7)
- right but does that (using manufactured CDs) validate hi-rez recording? - Goober58 13:27:19 04/09/14 (6)
- RE: right but does that (using manufactured CDs) validate hi-rez recording? - StephenJK 13:42:35 04/09/14 (5)
- RE: right but does that (using manufactured CDs) validate hi-rez recording? - Goober58 14:13:21 04/09/14 (4)
- I'm not justifying high resolution recording. - StephenJK 15:01:36 04/09/14 (3)
- And I told you even a CD quality recording of vinyl sounds better than a manufactured CD! - Goober58 16:18:31 04/09/14 (2)
- That makes no sense. You're saying that a CD recording of an original LP sounds better than - tinear 13:40:35 04/11/14 (1)
- That's not what I said but I suppose that's possible too! - Goober58 17:56:45 04/11/14 (0)