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Thanks for posting, it's been an interesting discussion.

And no, we didn't come to any conclusions but I learned a lot.

Traditionally, I listen to LP's when I really want to hear music and play CD's for background noise.

As we all know, the LP's and CD's that we eventually buy are the end of the line. We have no way of knowing how they've been treated and handled from the studio to the pressing plant. That really makes it difficult to evaluate the sonic qualities of each on their own merits without a lot of dedicated testing.

I have both LP's and CD's that sound like they were recorded on a portable cassette player. But a great LP just seems to have that extra something that is difficult to quantify. I don’t have many CD’s that make me sit up and pay attention; it seems less frequent than with LP’s.

But I'm not that fussy about it. If it doesn't sound that great I just figure that it is what it is, and can go along with that. It's all about the music after all. I would never bother trying to find a better sounding copy of any particular LP if I already have it - I would rather find something new that I don't already have.

What I find interesting is now that I'm recording LP's in DSD format and then converting to 24/96 FLAC, I don't seem to hear any difference from the original LP. But, and a big but, I haven't gone to any lengths to do any serious testing to see if and what any subtle difference could be. Why?

Because I just don't care that much about it. I wanted to be able to play LP's or CD's in digital format with a music server and a storage medium that's reasonably portable and I now have that.

I find recently with the convenience of being able to select music and add to a playlist whatever I want to listen to I don’t seem to be worried so much about where the original file came from, LP or CD.

Thanks for participating.


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  • Thanks for posting, it's been an interesting discussion. - StephenJK 12:47:16 04/12/14 (0)

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