"RobH" wrote in
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"Keith G" wrote in message
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Given that my own preferences are for vinyl and that I think all
'digital'
music is crap compared with it, I am, nevertheless, interested to know
why
exactly is it that SACDs (stereo) sound so much better than the
equivalent
CDs?

I'm curious to know at what point music becomes "crap" if it is
digitized. You have a preference for vinyl but many of the classical LPs
that I have are "original digital recordings" - are they then "crap"?


Not necessarily, I have a dozen or more 'digitally' produced Warner Bros Ry
Cooder LPs which sound excellent but I also have a Vox/Pioneer 'Digital
Recording' LP ( Mahler 1 - H10002V) which proudly lists:

Tech Spec:
PCM -1600 Digital Recording system
Sampling Rate: 44,056
Encoding: 16 Bit linear
Frequency Response: +0, -0.5dB; 4 Hz to 20 Hz
Microphones (2) B & K 4133/2619, Levinson ML-8 Pre-amps
All distortions less than .05%
Mixing Electronics: Levinson LNP-2
Monitor System: Levinson HQD
Producer and Balance Engineer: Brian Culverhouse
Production Advisor: George H de Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Digital Recording: Digital Recording Systems Co., Inc.
Digital Editing: Sony DEC-1000 (prototype)


Impressive huh? - Tells you everything except what fillings they had in the
sangies, doesn't it? Trouble is I have a number of other (bog-ordinaire)
recordings that sound better. It's very well played, a bit spitchy but,
worst of all is lacking in 'life' and 'ambience' and a bit 'dull' compared
with some of the others. If I can possibly get the time, I will make some
comparisons (as I will with many other pieces of music I have on a number of
different discs) with a view to posting the results on the new vinyl group
some time.



Personally I find all the recording analogue and digital formats that
I've heard are "crap" in comparison with real live music.


I never compare the two. When I play a record I'm playing a bloody record,
not trying to recreate some sad-arsed past 'live event'. (If my records
sounded as disappointing as some of the 'live music' I've heard in my time,
I'd ditch 'em!)



Anyone who says they don't is lying (if only to themselves) - sticks
out
like a chapel hatpeg....
Are you related to DABSWTFM by any chance?


Who he?