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Re: Really?

You said "That's just wrong. Most vinyl recordings don't extend to anywhere near Redbooks Nyquist limit. If anything CDs sound worse than vinyl because high frequencies have been extended beyond what normally is present on a vinyl LP without proper regard for the digital filtering requirements of digital."

I find the opposite is true in my system. CDs in all players I have tried have rolled off high frequencies and that little delicacy in high percussion instruments is totally missing from CD. Where I find CDs problems are is in the upper midrange which make Violins unlistenable and painful for me, nothing at all like a real Violin in a concert hall. I found CDs high frequency extension about equal to a good cassette, only cassettes are smoother and more musical sounding, at least on a Nakamichi.

LPs frequency extension is only equaled by DVD-Audio at 192kHz or SACD. CD cannot get these beautiful highs that LP can effortlessly. At least in my system. I have EMIT tweeters that go to 44kHz which probably helps provide that huge difference between high resolution LPs, especially audiophile ones and low resolution CDs. I no longer own any CDs as I find them too painful to listen to and a lot of it is the missing high frequencies and shrill upper midrange of the CD format.

"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa


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