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DandelionPowderman
Does anyone really think that a digitally recorded album sounds better on vinly? It's just... a CD on vinyl. Maybe it's mastered better. Seems like a cash grab whereas vinyl LPs from analog recorded albums is about the listening experience.
If someone wants to listen to an LP of their favorite artist just to be able to listen I doubt the format matters.
Something happens with the sound when it's mastered at lower volume. The sound of BAL in different formats makes that particularly evident.
I don't know how much this has to do with the quality of your turntable, though.
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Naturalust
Does anyone really think that a digitally recorded album sounds better on vinly? It's just... a CD on vinyl. Maybe it's mastered better. Seems like a cash grab whereas vinyl LPs from analog recorded albums is about the listening experience.
If someone wants to listen to an LP of their favorite artist just to be able to listen I doubt the format matters.
Something happens with the sound when it's mastered at lower volume. The sound of BAL in different formats makes that particularly evident.
I don't know how much this has to do with the quality of your turntable, though.
I think stuff mastered at higher levels tends to use more compression and as you know this usually reduces the overall dynamic range. Stuff with great dynamic range usually has the snare or other drum hits registering at the highest volume for a very short duration and sounds more natural and live to me. When longer lasting sounds get pushed up into the higher volume ranges the important difference between the drum cracks and the rest of the music tends to get lost and it wears the ears down. Listen to how George Massenburg mastered the Little Feat records in the last couple decades and you will hear what I am talking about. You can crank the volume on those records and it just sounds better and is still easy on the ears.
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GasLightStreet
Does anyone really think that a digitally recorded album sounds better on vinly? It's just... a CD on vinyl. Maybe it's mastered better. Seems like a cash grab whereas vinyl LPs from analog recorded albums is about the listening experience.
If someone wants to listen to an LP of their favorite artist just to be able to listen I doubt the format matters.
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Rockman
....did it vibrate off and crash to da floor Kowalski??.....^^^^^^^
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jumpingjackflash5
48 kHz is completely enough for audible spectrum. 24 bit is another story, it would be great if 24/48 FLACs area available e.g. even for CD buyers on download. Vinyl can have nice distortion, can have that "analog" (RIAA) sound, but it is inferior to 24/48 digital audio.
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kowalski
Research finds MP3s make your music sound more depressing
New research has found that listening to music in low-quality digital formats can dampened its emotional impact.
According to a study by the Audio Engineering Library, MP3s can have a distinct effect on the “timbral and emotional characteristics” of the instruments involved.
Researchers compared responses to compressed and uncompressed music over ten emotional categories at several bit rates.
The results showed that MP3 compression tended to strengthen neutral and negative emotional characteristics of a song, which the study defines as “mysterious, shy, scary and sad”.
On the other hand, MP3s can dull positive emotional characteristics, such as “happy, romantic or calm”. However, they had no effect on songs that were categorised as “angry”.
The Audio Engineering Library suggest that the background noise added by low-quality compression could be what intensifies the negative emotions.
The research also found that some instruments are more affected by compression than others with trumpets the most prone to change and horns the least.
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DandelionPowderman
Does anyone really think that a digitally recorded album sounds better on vinly? It's just... a CD on vinyl. Maybe it's mastered better. Seems like a cash grab whereas vinyl LPs from analog recorded albums is about the listening experience.
If someone wants to listen to an LP of their favorite artist just to be able to listen I doubt the format matters.
Something happens with the sound when it's mastered at lower volume. The sound of BAL in different formats makes that particularly evident.
I don't know how much this has to do with the quality of your turntable, though.
I think stuff mastered at higher levels tends to use more compression and as you know this usually reduces the overall dynamic range. Stuff with great dynamic range usually has the snare or other drum hits registering at the highest volume for a very short duration and sounds more natural and live to me. When longer lasting sounds get pushed up into the higher volume ranges the important difference between the drum cracks and the rest of the music tends to get lost and it wears the ears down. Listen to how George Massenburg mastered the Little Feat records in the last couple decades and you will hear what I am talking about. You can crank the volume on those records and it just sounds better and is still easy on the ears.
That's my experience as well. The LF-albums is a good example indeed. You can crank Keith's album as well. BAL is a tad more brutal on the ears.