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The Home of the Turntable. Knowledgebase:Main Page - Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase. GREAT SOUNDING RECORDS. THE following was written to aid engineers and producers who wish to release vinyl records.

It is especially important for those who may be well versed in recording, but have not released vinyl records before. The paper is mainly about "pop" music , but the principles apply to all others. It was written to explain a complicated transformation in as simple terms as possible. To some it may seem very technical, to technical types it will seem simplistic. It was written for the "middle ground". PRODUCING GREAT SOUNDING PHONOGRAPH RECORDS (or Why Records Don’t Always Sound Like the Master Tape) The phonograph record is a marvelous medium for storing and reproducing sound. That having been said, it is important to understand the limitations of this medium in order to make great sounding records. The record groove is an analog of a sound wave. Next limitation: treble. I said you don’t have to worry about the RIAA curve, but the cutting engineer sure does!

I’ll discuss stereo very briefly. The Art Of Sound. The Well-Tempered Computer. Digital audio files in general have a bit depth of 16 or 24 bits.

This means the sample is represented with a precision of 16 or 24 bits integer. Improve the resolution 256 times! Often pictures are used to demonstrate the difference between high and low resolution audio. Indeed, the higher the resolution, the sharper the image. Can we expect the same when moving from 16 bit (CD audio) to 24 bit? Back to the pictures. 1 bit=6 dB SNR=6N+1.8 dB (N in bits) to be exact but for convenience sake, let’s use 6. The loudest possible signal in digital audio (all bits are 1) is the reference, this is called 0 dBFS (dB Full Scale). All other measurements expressed in terms of dBFS will always be less than 0 dB (negative numbers). 16 bits will go down to -96 dBFS and 24 to -144 dBFS In essence, 24 bits continue where 16 bits stops.

Noise floor The theoretical maximum signal-to-noise ratio in an analogue system is around 130dB. In practice 120 dB is a very good value. A couple of specs: Sound City Studios - Los Angeles CA. High definition vinyl rips? [Archive] - The Art of Sound Forum. They are doing just that :eyebrows: A top flight record deck & cartridge can sound better than just about any CD player.

Please remember that analogue is virtually an infinite number of samples because you have the complete waveform & not one chopped into bits ;) A nice clean record & good gear playing it & i'm sure it'd be well worth recording in at least 24/96 :) I don't need no convincing when it comes to the special status of analog sound (when done well, of course). What I'm interested in discussing here is this: would a good vinyl rip equal a good SACD/DVD-Audio master? Example: I have a rather OK DVD-Audio master of Billy Cobham's legendary 1973 album "Spectrum" (24-bit/96 kHz). Now, if someone were to find a good vinyl copy of the same album, and rip it in 24/96 using a top drawer gear, would that rip equal the DVD-Audio master? Pro Audio Design: Recording Studio Equipment New & Used Consoles. Audio, Hi Fi, Home Audio, Reviews.

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Think the NAD 3020 integrated amplifier in the 1970s, the Adcom GFA amplifiers in the 1980s, the PSB Alpha speaker in the 1990s, and the Cambridge Audio 840C CD player in the 2000’s. You can add another future legend to that list: the $399 Micromega MyDAC. The MyDAC is so good that I couldn’t keep it a secret for the seven weeks it will take for my full review to appear in the December issue of The Absolute Sound. Micromega’s MyDAC looks very much like an Apple AirPort Extreme (not coincidentally, I presume) with its white plastic chassis (black is available) and 5.5” square and 1.4” high form factor. A front-panel wheel, reminiscent of the tuning wheel on 1970’s-era Marantz tuners, selects between the SPDIF coaxial, TosLink optical, and USB inputs. I dropped the MyDAC into my reference system and was shocked by how good it sounded for the price.

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