RR,
Sounds right to me.
Cheers!
Sounds right to me.
Cheers!
Is New Vinyl Exempt from Loudness Wars?
I'm seeing new vinyl sold in many unexpected places these days.
For those who have bought a lot of new vinyl, I'm wondering if these tend to be mastered differently from similar newer CD remasters that often show effects of the "Loudness Wars"?
Is it a mixed bag perhaps? Much like CDs?
I wonder because if I knew there was a different mastering done for new vinyl I might consider buying some if I knew.
But new vinyl is expensive and I would not want to get essentially the same end result in regards to sound quality as I would get with CD for much less.
Just wondering.
For those who have bought a lot of new vinyl, I'm wondering if these tend to be mastered differently from similar newer CD remasters that often show effects of the "Loudness Wars"?
Is it a mixed bag perhaps? Much like CDs?
I wonder because if I knew there was a different mastering done for new vinyl I might consider buying some if I knew.
But new vinyl is expensive and I would not want to get essentially the same end result in regards to sound quality as I would get with CD for much less.
Just wondering.
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RR Mapman - Sounds right to me Are you sure Raul/Mapman. I think it depends on who is involved in doing the "audio job" from start to finish. And I give just one example from today. My wife brings home from shopping the Adele 25 cd. $12. She said they had stacks of the cd in the store - Costco. She saw me watching the NY concert so she bought it. I know Adele is really, really, popular at Audiogon - 8^0 - with two recent threads dedicated to her. So in the subject of this thread I look deeper into this. The Dr database reveals. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=adele&album= Adele 25 2015 ratings 05 - 04 - 08 lossless CD Adele 25 2015 11 - 09 - 12 lossless Vinyl Adele 25 (96/24 LP Needle Drop) 2015 11 - 09 -12 lossless Vinyl Why is vinyl rated higher ? Has anyone heard both the cd and vinyl versions ? Curious..... |
and if you analize the RIAA curve you can see that exist a significative compression in the bass frequency range that latter on the phono stage have to be " restablished " through another RIAA eq. degradation mechanism. It does not matters what any one name it of course exist that bass compression that as I said the digital alternative has not. Regards and enjoy the music, R. |
"The Dr database reveals. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=adele&album= Adele 25 2015 ratings 05 - 04 - 08 lossless CD Adele 25 2015 11 - 09 - 12 lossless Vinyl Adele 25 (96/24 LP Needle Drop) 2015 11 - 09 -12 lossless Vinyl Why is vinyl rated higher ? Has anyone heard both the cd and vinyl versions ? Curious....." I suspect the real question is, why are both formats so POOR? You know, on the Dynamic Range Database the lowest number for a rating of Good Dynamic Range is 14. The number 8-13 are transitional, and 1-7 represent BAD dynamic range. If I'm not mistaken there’s actually a recording somewhere in the dynamic range database with a 0, zero, goose egg for dynamic range. So for the Adele releases listed above on the Database, both CD and vinyl, the numbers for Average, Lowest and Highest Dynamic Range are what should probably be described as abysmal. |
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