-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2014-07-03 at 18:14 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 07/03/2014 05:39 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Which is why some of the arguments about vinyl being better have /some/ weight. An analog tool chain /maybe/ transmits some of that, or maybe just adds noise (intentionally or not) at those frequencies so that the ear is fooled, and the mind thinks the sound is better.
That vinyl /can/ produce higher frequencies and harmonics is interesting but as you say it presumes the tool chain supports all that.
Of course.
And this isn't just the tool chain of your audio set-up, your cartridge, tone arm, wow-n-flutter-less turn table that also produces no rumble, but the quality of your leads, your preamp compensation, tour amp and you speakers and their wiring. And -- what's that 50Hz or 60Hz hum I gear? Your 'grounding'
But there's the production tool chain. The studio and background sound, quality of the microphones and pick-ups, 'slider noise' of the recording deck, wow-n-flutter of the tapes, stretching of the tapes, print-though of the tapes, the mix of the various channels to the master tape and all of the above tape problems applied there, and then a pile of issues as to the cutting of the master.
Absolutely.
Now some of those we encounter in the digital tool chain as well, and many of them we don't if this is a digital studio as opposed to digital remastering of old, old analogue studio tapes, which is a common way of dealing with re-releasing old albums.
And this remastering is done by software. Complex software. The goal is to "restore" what is decoded from the original but degraded master, to what we /think/ the original would be. But we may be mistaken in our assumptions, or our software be not good enough, maths allowing :-) Maybe 10 years from now they can redo it even better. Maybe using an electron microscope on the entire tape length! LOL. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlO14r0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V0BQCgioJFBzL+Ro7Or+BWgKpLmHZO TP4AoImzos6fKBd1nv0PHMoIwGxV+A87 =B4nq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org