One and a half Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 I had this topic on ignore as the quarrels started to mount, but reviewed and found @John Dyson‘s posts very commendable and even better has a solution. Right, for ABBA, and quite a few CDs from that era, the bass was wrong, does it exist? There’s the debate on phase polarity being wrong, wrong RIAA curve applied. Now this kind of audio engineering accounting driven mediocrity makes a lot of sense. Very keen to listen to the samples with the Dolby A decoding at the end of this flight. Even the consumer Dolby C was too bright to listen to without flicking the switch on cassettes, Dolby A decoding should bring this back and jerk the accountants. Im also very keen how @John Dyson software can be integrated into existing players such as Roon. Perhaps a meta data switch from the file to trigger a plugin , probably early days yet. There are hundreds, thousands of titles that the lack of decoding applies to, but the loudness wars titles would have to be clawed back to the beginning. Would SACD releases have the same problem? My purchases for SACD are sourced from Japan, and did find the Carpenters compilation album a little on the thin side, but Karen’s voice still sends the chills down the spine. Please keep the dialog going, fascinating concept. AS Profile Equipment List Say NO to MQA Link to comment
One and a half Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 The opening of the original Downtown is hiss city, the demo tanks the hiss, well done. Petula's voice on the original is covered in mire, as opposed to a remarkable very clear distinction, and a little bit more reverb without the 44 gallon drum effect. Nice dynamics, wow, there's drums. The vocals overall convey the song with more vigour (more dynamics s'pose). Compared the SACD out of Hong Kong, and it sounds cleaner than the original, but not much, probably the same master, just transferred, but they have done some work, but it's not as good as the demo though. Level match between the SACD was a hit and miss not scientific, so tried various levels down, still the demo comes out on top. Now this is from a humble laptop soundcard and Sony MDR-Z7. Will transfer to the main system with HD800S/820 as soon as I can and compare Carpenters. AS Profile Equipment List Say NO to MQA Link to comment
Popular Post One and a half Posted July 14, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2019 5 hours ago, AVphile said: Over the past four months, I have spent a lot of money (for me) incorporating a decent music streamer/DAC into my audio system which heretofore had been primarily CD- and secondarily vinyl-based. The playback equipment for both is of good quality, but the ease of using CDs as my "go-to" music source has led my turntable to gather dust. More recently, with the ability to utilize Roon and Tidal, my CD playback equipment has also been relegated -- most of the time -- to dust collection. Yesterday, just for the hell of it, I decided to compare the vinyl to streamed versions of two songs -- For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield and Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac -- in a real time A to B switching experiment. The result was really depressing; the streamed versions were good, but the vinyl version of each sounded even better. I am hard pressed to assign the reason for this as being due to poorer vs. better equipment. My current audio system represents an investment costing more than $100K, and I have been careful in my purchases of its components. Also, in my experiment, I made certain that I was using the same (based on album cover) recording for each version. All I can say is that the vinyl version of each track sounded more "life-like". Maybe it was due to the underlying frequency response spectrum of my vinyl playback components in comparison to those of my music streamer/DAC; specifically, that perhaps the vinyl version had a gain boost in the "presence" region that I heard as more exciting. I really don't know. Regardless, this was the outcome I neither expected nor wanted. Digital by its nature has a wider dynamic range which lets the ‘dirt’ in a lot easier than a vinyl system of reduced dynamic range and 100% analog transmissions. That digital dirt clouds the signal and with many components in the chain , each adding its own dirt. For vinyl, linear amplification applies which has matured over many years. The disadvantages are largely influenced by mechanical problems which create their own kind of dirt, which to a trained ear is fixable, of which I don’t have and will stick with digital by trying to remove the digital dirt. A significant blame is traceable to the product we purchase. wgscott and sandyk 1 1 AS Profile Equipment List Say NO to MQA Link to comment
One and a half Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 13 hours ago, The_K-Man said: 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂"Digital dirt"?? Ohh that's hysterical! 😂😂🤣😆😆😆 OK, then please put forth your proposal to remove currents caused by parasitic capacitive junctions between gates and the case of every semiconductor from diodes, IC, FETs, switching FETs especially high power ones. AS Profile Equipment List Say NO to MQA Link to comment
One and a half Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 13 hours ago, AVphile said: Actually, One and a half may have a point. I doubt that any electron has every received a bath in the nearly 14 billion years (or less) since its formation. Clearly, over that extended period of time even the most fastidious electron is going to become soiled. What's worse is what all those electrons must be doing to any audiophile's cabling -- both inside and between components. Unfortunately, this serious problem must be more pervasive than One and a half proposes. Unless I am mistaken, analog signals also are subjected to the same putrification. On the bright side, this is an indisputable reason for purchasing all new audio equipment at least annually! Oh another one to jump on the ignorance bandwagon, don't show yourself to be like @The_K-Man. The_K-Man 1 AS Profile Equipment List Say NO to MQA Link to comment
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