"Keith G" wrote in message
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"RobH"
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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)

Err, I thought you said that ALL digital music is crap compared to
vinyl.

Is digital music okay if it is subsequently recorded onto vinyl ?


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!)

My mistake. I thought that recordings were supposed to be an attempt to
recreate some sort of musical event.

What do you find disappointing about "live music"? The acoustics? The
performance? The volume?

The first time I went to an orchestral concert I felt the constant urge
to turn up the volume.
Silly me.



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?
Sorry, I forgot I wasn't posting to alt.radio.digital.



--
RobH
The future's dim, the future's mono.