--- Keyser & Shuriken <keyser.shuriken@freemail.hu> wrote:
> You are right only when you speak about new, digitally recorded music. Old
> stuff
> (especially before the 80s) will always sound better on vinyl (when it's
> carefully
> handled). And it's not just a consensus, but pure facts: on vinyl you can
> hear (or
> better said feel) the frequencies above 20 000 kHz, on digitally recorded
> music it's
> cut off.
wow! really? 20000kHz? unfortunately the human hearing range ends at 20kHz. ;-)
what you probably meant to say is CDs cut off everything above 20kHz, where
you're still wrong as CDs cut off everything above 22.05kHZ. but you'd have a
very hard time finding a human who can hear anything above 20kHz.
the argument that vinyl sounds "better" than CD is perpetuated mainly by older
audiophiles who grew so used to the feel of records that they are biased
towards that sound. but since "better" is qualitative, one can't really settle
this argument. however if "better" is taken to mean the highest fidelity to
what the original live session sounded like, a good digital recording will
smoke the pants off of vinyl.
as far as old stuff especially before the 80s sounding better on vinyl, there
were some really bad transfers/masters done for CD in the early years of the
technology. however take a good recent remaster (ie: many of the recent late
60s/early 70s bluenote reissues) play it on a good and properly setup stereo
and you will be there with the band. :-)
my 2 cents.
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