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In Reply to: RE: The problem is the obsolete CD format, not digital. posted by John Elison on September 04, 2015 at 18:17:28
Distortion is a particular subjective impairment of sound quality that manifests in two relevant ways, either as an unwanted change in tone color or harshness and as a blending of the sound of separate musical instruments that would not be heard in a live performance.
If your measurements to do not correlate with what people perceive when listening to recordings, they are irrelevant. If you can't hear differences personally when dubbing vinyl or cassette tapes to 44/16 then I suggest you gain additional experience in critical listening. The differences are obvious even on a laptop with inexpensive headphones.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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> Distortion is a particular subjective impairment of sound quality
I agree!
> If your measurements to do not correlate with what people perceive when listening to recordings, they are irrelevant.
That is very true and my measurements correlate exactly with what I hear when listening to recordings.
Therefore, it seems we are in complete agreement. When I listen to vinyl I hear distortion. When I listen to digital I hear clarity, transparency, and purity of sound, unless I'm listening to a digital recording of vinyl. ;-)
Good luck,
John Elison
Guess I must have had a better vinyl setup. SOTA vacuum Sapphire, SME 5, Koetsu Rosewood, VPI RCM. No distortion on any properly cut LP, including test tracks played hundreds of times. (Required several hours of hand adjustment of cartridge and tone arm to remove distortion, as done by ear.)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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