Steven Sullivan wrote:


[someone typed]

I would be astonished if anyone could tell the difference between an
original 24-bit digitisation and a 16-bit one when digitising vinyl.

You must not visit 'audiophile' forums much. Such claims are routine

For the wordlenght difference to matter in RECORDING there has to be signal
that is either truncated or hit by converter unlinearities. The latter
hardly applies in case of the same converter and the former does not apply
for vinyl. The only advantage in sampling at 24 or 32 bits is in the
workflow because a file format conversion can be skipped.

-- as is the claim that neither digitization will sound as good as the
vinyl. They';re never backed up with anything like hard evidence, of
course but they're not at all uncommon.

First of all it will not sound like grammophone playback that is influenced
via the grammophone hearing the loudspeakers. This is not a new issue. For
quality playback the grammophone has to be in another room than the one you
listen in. Next there is the issue of number of analog components the signal
passes through prior to being digitized.

The issue that matters is that the digitized recording does not deteriorate
further and that the life of the backup version, the vinyl disk, is greatly
extended by it not being played back.

-S


Kind regards

Peter Larsen