Comments on: Vinyl Albums Recorded Digitally? http://www.classicvinylrecord.com/vinyl-albums-recorded-digitally/ Vinyl Records, Classic Albums and Audiophile Stuff Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:41:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan Thorntonhttp://www.classicvinylrecord.com/vinyl-albums-recorded-digitally/comment-page-1/#comment-76646 Ryan Thornton Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:28:13 +0000 http://www.classicvinylrecord.com/vinyl-albums-recorded-digitally/#comment-76646 @Ben in reference to your response to pbmiller18.I think youre missing his point. A losless reproduction of a digital recording is NOT a snapshot of a snapshot, its a perfect copy of the original snapshot. He's also not speaking to music whose sound "you "dont like" he's speaking to new higher sample rates that only leave out what the human ear can't hear anyway. Bottom line. No advantage to vinyl unless the music was originally recorded in analog. @Ben in reference to your response to pbmiller18.

I think youre missing his point. A losless reproduction of a digital recording is NOT a snapshot of a snapshot, its a perfect copy of the original snapshot. He’s also not speaking to music whose sound “you “dont like” he’s speaking to new higher sample rates that only leave out what the human ear can’t hear anyway. Bottom line. No advantage to vinyl unless the music was originally recorded in analog.

]]> By: Steve Welshhttp://www.classicvinylrecord.com/vinyl-albums-recorded-digitally/comment-page-1/#comment-24167 Steve Welsh Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:33:35 +0000 http://www.classicvinylrecord.com/vinyl-albums-recorded-digitally/#comment-24167 It's a very interesting argument. My personal experience can be related by sharing something i noticed last week. I consumed a 3cd set in one sitting: Frank Zappa at the Hammersmith Odeon, 1978. Thanks to the downright heroic efforts of Gail Zappa and Joe Travers, we FZ fans have been graced with continuing releases from the vaults of the deceased musical genius. The sound quality is amazing, and the original multitrack tapes were transferred en-masse to the digital domain for mixing and mastering, (it's well-documented). I think the main difference between analog and digital sound is the mood experienced by the listener. Since this is not a tangable, measurable quality, there is no hard evidence to support either side, but a condition known as "listener fatigue" is something that creeps into the experience of listening over time... Toward the end of a 3-hour digital audio program, I personally find myself unable to fully enjoy the music, and a strange tension develops. I do not find this to be true about vinyl. I can drop the needle end-to-end for 8 hours straight, and whether noisy or not, I never really want to turn it off, (until real-life comes to reclaim my attention). I'm not sure if this effect is present on vinyl that was digitally mastered, since i only buy vinyl i know to be of analog decent. When cd's first came out, they were all stamped with AAD (analog recording/analog mastering/digital release) and I feel it would still be in the public's interest to impose this code to newly released vinyl, so the consumer knows if they are buying a DDA product. It’s a very interesting argument. My personal experience can be related by sharing something i noticed last week. I consumed a 3cd set in one sitting: Frank Zappa at the Hammersmith Odeon, 1978. Thanks to the downright heroic efforts of Gail Zappa and Joe Travers, we FZ fans have been graced with continuing releases from the vaults of the deceased musical genius. The sound quality is amazing, and the original multitrack tapes were transferred en-masse to the digital domain for mixing and mastering, (it’s well-documented). I think the main difference between analog and digital sound is the mood experienced by the listener. Since this is not a tangable, measurable quality, there is no hard evidence to support either side, but a condition known as “listener fatigue” is something that creeps into the experience of listening over time… Toward the end of a 3-hour digital audio program, I personally find myself unable to fully enjoy the music, and a strange tension develops. I do not find this to be true about vinyl. I can drop the needle end-to-end for 8 hours straight, and whether noisy or not, I never really want to turn it off, (until real-life comes to reclaim my attention). I’m not sure if this effect is present on vinyl that was digitally mastered, since i only buy vinyl i know to be of analog decent. When cd’s first came out, they were all stamped with AAD (analog recording/analog mastering/digital release) and I feel it would still be in the public’s interest to impose this code to newly released vinyl, so the consumer knows if they are buying a DDA product.

]]> By: Benhttp://www.classicvinylrecord.com/vinyl-albums-recorded-digitally/comment-page-1/#comment-7408 Ben Fri, 21 May 2010 12:49:39 +0000 http://www.classicvinylrecord.com/vinyl-albums-recorded-digitally/#comment-7408 Thanks for your comment. If you look at this image, you will see what I'm talking about. <img src="http://www.classicvinylrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/CD-under-Microscope.jpg" alt="A CD under a microscope shows the "missing" music." /> There are gaps in the CD that we can't hear normally, but there will be gaps in the music. Whereas the vinyl record (whether you like the sound or not) has no gaps, it is continuous. Thanks for your comment. If you look at this image, you will see what I’m talking about. A CD under a microscope shows the
There are gaps in the CD that we can’t hear normally, but there will be gaps in the music. Whereas the vinyl record (whether you like the sound or not) has no gaps, it is continuous.

]]> By: pbmiller18http://www.classicvinylrecord.com/vinyl-albums-recorded-digitally/comment-page-1/#comment-6830 pbmiller18 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:12:04 +0000 http://www.classicvinylrecord.com/vinyl-albums-recorded-digitally/#comment-6830 I am not sure I agree with your logic. When an artist records digitally, there is only one "snapshot" series taken from the session. This session is exactly transcribed into the digital master for lossless CDs using the data already gatherd. This is the same process in principle for transcoding an analogue session onto an analogue master. The only step to really attend to is the first choice of analogue or digital in the recording stage. It would follow that if digital bitrate opperates higher than what the best human ear can attend to, then both anaglogue and digital sound equally superior. I am not sure I agree with your logic. When an artist records digitally, there is only one “snapshot” series taken from the session. This session is exactly transcribed into the digital master for lossless CDs using the data already gatherd. This is the same process in principle for transcoding an analogue session onto an analogue master. The only step to really attend to is the first choice of analogue or digital in the recording stage. It would follow that if digital bitrate opperates higher than what the best human ear can attend to, then both anaglogue and digital sound equally superior.

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