Home Vinyl Asylum

Welcome Licorice Pizza (LP) lovers! Setup guides and Vinyl FAQ.

[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] Thread: [ Display  All  Email ] [ Vinyl Asylum ]
[ Alert Moderator ]

RE: Comparing vinyl sound to hi-res digital remaster

You're right and I'm glad you brought this up. I was challenged in 2006 to fly to Seattle and prove to Mike Lavigne that 16/44 Redbook digital could sound the same as vinyl. Mike had a stereo system that cost at least two or three hundred thousand dollars and he thought he could easily hear the difference between digital and analog. In fact, he was so confident he could hear the difference that he bet $250 he could identify the digital recording 100% of the time. He would have succeeded in winning the bet had we used his thirty thousand dollar Meitner CD player to conduct the test. However, I insisted on using my thousand dollar Audio Alchemy CD player and Mike failed his own challenge by missing one of the digital trials. Two others attempted the test but also failed.

Remember, we were using 16/44 Redbook digital and a thousand dollar Audio Alchemy CD player connected to a two or three hundred thousand dollar stereo system with Monster Cable interconnects. Mike's turntable was a 75 thousand dollar Rockport Sirius III with a $7000 van den Hul Colibri phono cartridge and a 30 thousand dollar darTZeel phono preamp. He had $8000 interconnects connecting his turntable to the darTZeel and he used thirty thousand dollar speaker cables. I have no doubt that the results would have more heavily favored digital had we used a hi-res DSD recorder instead of 16/44 Redbook. However, even using 16/44 Redbook, Mike was absolutely shocked that he missed even one trial out of six.

Thanks,
John Elison


This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
  Schiit Audio  

Follow Ups Full Thread
Follow Ups
FAQ

Post a Message!

 Forgot Password?
Moniker (Username):
Password (Optional):
  Remember my Moniker & Password  (What's this?)    Eat Me
E-Mail (Optional):
Subject:
Message:   (Posts are subject to Content Rules)
Optional Link URL:
Optional Link Title:
Optional Image URL:
Upload Image:
E-mail Replies:  Automagically notify you when someone responds.

[ Top Top of Page ] [ Contact Us ] [ Support/Wish List ] [ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
[ General ] [ Speakers ] [ Tubes ] [ Vinyl ] [ Digital ] [ Hi-Rez ] [ Video Asylum ] [ Cables ] [ Tweaks/DIY ] [ Music ] [ Films ]