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RE: Comparing vinyl sound to hi-res digital remaster

Many or even most digital recordings of acoustic music made in the 80 & 90s are sub-par, unfortunately, and there's almost nothing that can be done about it.

There are exceptions, to be sure: Chet Baker in Tokyo ('87) on 16/44 is so good (my setup is a Mac Mini feeding a Sonore microRendu (which does wonders) feeding a little Metrum Musette R2R DAC) it makes vinyl *mostly* passe. But the best vinyl still has more nuance, to be sure. (It also has vinyl's weaknesses but those are so much more tolerable.)

On the other side, I have Mingus' Ah Um on redbook and SACD and the vinyl (even a thin 33 played hundreds of times) whomps them for tone, decay, etc. no matter the digital chain.

Timing errors in the ADC and mastering process cannot be undone (except by MQA, so they say - it seems to be true, but nothing I want to listen to is on MQA so who cares).

Where I'm at now personally is that properly done digital recordings can be so good that analog is not necessary, but all the music I like best was recorded in analog, and most of it has no digital transfer that can rival the analog experience. So you do records.

Recording vinyl can get oh so close but once you know the artifacts (they are there), you will hear them. DSD128, 24/192, it doesn't matter.

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