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<!-- #thumb --> <p>“Dear Paul. *After months of your blogs, I am finally confused. You say that the sound of a 44.1K 16 bit cd copy of a vinyl record is indistinguishable from the vinyl*record.* Yet, in my experience, the sound of a superbly recorded vinyl record has greater ambience, depth etc. than a “standard” cd.* There have been many reasons stated, including brick wall filters etc. *Am I just imagining those things?* Is there any reason to keep our treasured old vinyl records?”</p>
<p>I received many such inquiries after my post <a title="A good magic trick" href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/good-magic-trick/11565/">A good magic trick</a>*and I wanted to set the record straight. *It seems I did not do a good job of explaining what I meant which was never to suggest the remastered CD version of an original vinyl release is indistinguishable from the vinyl. *That is something I would never suggest because for better or worse (mostly worse) the CD versions of classic vinyls are not the same and are completely distinguished from the original.</p>
<p>What I meant to have relayed is this. *If you take one of your vinyl discs and play it on your turntable and listen to it on your system, it sounds the way it does. *Probably great as is the case with the above poster. *Now, play that same album again – the vinyl disc itself – only this time make a copy right off your disc using an A/D converter. *The captured sound of YOUR turntable playing a vinyl disc should be close enough to what you hear live, if you have a good A/D Converter, that it is nearly indistinguishable from the live playback of the vinyl.</p>
<p>That is fundamentally different than what the remastering engineer did to make the standard CD version of a classic vinyl.</p>
<p>Just to set the record straight. *Pun intended.</p>
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<p>I received many such inquiries after my post <a title="A good magic trick" href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/good-magic-trick/11565/">A good magic trick</a>*and I wanted to set the record straight. *It seems I did not do a good job of explaining what I meant which was never to suggest the remastered CD version of an original vinyl release is indistinguishable from the vinyl. *That is something I would never suggest because for better or worse (mostly worse) the CD versions of classic vinyls are not the same and are completely distinguished from the original.</p>
<p>What I meant to have relayed is this. *If you take one of your vinyl discs and play it on your turntable and listen to it on your system, it sounds the way it does. *Probably great as is the case with the above poster. *Now, play that same album again – the vinyl disc itself – only this time make a copy right off your disc using an A/D converter. *The captured sound of YOUR turntable playing a vinyl disc should be close enough to what you hear live, if you have a good A/D Converter, that it is nearly indistinguishable from the live playback of the vinyl.</p>
<p>That is fundamentally different than what the remastering engineer did to make the standard CD version of a classic vinyl.</p>
<p>Just to set the record straight. *Pun intended.</p>
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