Can digital enhance vinyl? I'll include as many choices given my limited knowledge of vinyl.
Can digital enhance vinyl? I'll include as many choices given my limited knowledge of vinyl.
I don't see any choices yet. Instead of the word "enhance", what about a word or phrase that is more specific. For instance if the word were "change" there would be no poll to take. What if the poll said, "Can digital enhance vinyl by simply converting it to digital without any processing other than re-equalization?" Is the source an actual record played through a turntable and then run through a ADC or?
And then there is the converse which is, "Can a vinyl record improve upon the sound quality of source material that was digitally mastered?"
There are a couple of answers here. 1) Vinyl, properly ripped to digital, will be neither enhanced or diminished, it will simply be copied. It will copy all of vinyl's sonic properties and the sonic properties of the table it's played upon. With the right software, pops and clicks can be removed, and the colorations, if not the limitations of vinyl, can be at least partially addressed. Addressing colorations is essentially re-mastering, however; not for the neophyte. "Can vinyl improve on the sound quality of source material that was digitally mastered?" If you had the ability to cut digital masters to vinyl, it would certainly change it, as would playing it back on a turntable. Whether or not it would be an improvement would be a judgement call here, a no, in objective reality.
Mark - "How could you possibly know the answer to your poll question? You have no turntable, arm, or cartridge in your system right?"
I can only assume you didn't understand the issue/question.
Tim
I understand your POV and many share it. However, most people with an opinion on either side have not actually done what you are talking about. IMO and it is no better than yours is that a digital rip from vinyl does diminish the sound quality regardless of what filters you choose to apply. And I do have vinyl rips that were properly done.
One opinion - one vote. But isn't it interesting given the results of the analog versus digital poll.
I want to contemporaneously get all the benefits of vinyl and all the benefits of digital.
RIAA can not be properly done in the digital domain.
What crosstalk and what box Jack? I am not able to follow the plot .Michael how will you deal with the added crosstalk with a format that has the crosstalk built in? Is it defeatable from the box?
Ah, that makes sense. Love to see how you do as I am a firm believer in the value of what you are doing.I think Jack is talking about the Acourate convolver. It can add frequency dependent crosstalk which is designed to emulate vinyl crosstalk. It's really fun to use it but I wouldn't say it's the most valuable feauture of the DSP I do.
I won't be using Acourate. I'll be using audiolense so there won't be any DSP crosstalk. I just use DSP for digital crossovers and target curve. Of course, there's a couple of RIAA curves I can add as well.
RIAA can not be properly done in the digital domain.
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