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  1. D.Duttilleux

    American Sound AS-2000 Installations- Far East (Mr. T's)

    It only takes some inner knowledge and a frame of reference - including listening to several Wilson speakers, constructed according to the same principles and with similar materials - to imagine the sound: artificially correct, lossy, gray, undynamic, not exactly natural etc. So typical MOR high...
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    The C63 is probably one of my favorites, not in the least because of this video fragment: Nice motto by the way. It reminds me of a statement by a local historian: "Some squirrels continue to collect nuts even when they already have far more than they can eat".
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    This book might be of interest:
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Telling and I don't need to add anything to this. On a sidenote: Bruce, you seem to be an AMG enthusiast. Have you ever driven this one?
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    The analysis is obviously (inherently/inevitably) flawed, but it was not intended to be irrefutable. I could supply Bruce with the VST, but I don't own a full-fledged AD studio.
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Even if you were to do the same test with a good dose of redundancy - e.g. using multiple identical setups with NOS SOTA analog gear (and the same redundancy for digital), the chaos factor of analog still applies. In an analog reproduction (hi-fi) chain this factor is greater, because there are...
  7. D.Duttilleux

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Good question, but the analysis is not mine, it's part of a thesis SpectraFoo is a high resolution metering and sound analysis tool (VST) primarily used by recording/studio/FOH engineers. The ADC obviously afffects the analog signal, but so does the analog equipment used, as stated in the...
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    "A Spectral Analysis of Analog and Digital Recordings Analysis: To analyze the two audio samples, analyzing software called SpectraFoo was used. According to the manual obtained from its host website, Metric Halo (2011), SpectraFoo can be described as a “high–precision, low–latency, fully...
  9. D.Duttilleux

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Bring up the subject of satanic ritual abuse, or a similar delicate issue... and most people will walk away. Unsurprisingly, it's often the same runaways who are at the forefront of condemning others for not complying with 'certain imposed rules'. Manipulating the masses, Julius Caesar was an...
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    You could interpret it as such from a practical perspective and perhaps there is little more you can expect from the average therapist these days, at least in my country.
  11. D.Duttilleux

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Fwiw: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kay-clarity-8531b2151_taylor-swift-is-in-essence-just-a-woke-corporation-activity-7085026067840679936-5u4w/
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    I consider myself primarily an observer of (the game of) life, rather than a judge (which clouds the view). Music can indeed be considered a universal language, as long as there's no (hidden) agenda attached to it ;)
  13. D.Duttilleux

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Back on topic, here's another book, including 2 appropriate quotes in the preface.
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Terribly drifting off-topic, but let's take it one step further. This is a book, the first edition from 1964: Bearing in mind the book (without judging), this is an interesting (press) photo: So much for contemplation ;)
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Money = power and Taylor Swift is in a way becoming a powerful woman (power icon). Time = money (and I have plenty of time). Money makes the world go round > try to let the bs factor of this sink in. An open question: "what does real wealth mean (to you)"? What does this say about that...
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Then watch this (> best not kill your inner child): As I type this, on the motorway in the distance - where 100 km/h is allowed - I hear a motorcyclist accelerate to about 250-280 and then my neighbor start his Jaguar XJ6 Series 1. All things that make you feel alive :) (though probably...
  17. D.Duttilleux

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    My mother still has the early Beatles singles she bought in her late teens/early twenties. Me too, several of each. However, there's Pink Floyd and there's Roger Waters > in light of my previous post ;)
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    I'm afraid you're missing the bigger picture here. Taylor Swift is not an entrepreneur in the pure sense, neither is Elon Musk. Let this sink in. and consider: Why was our national DJ icon replaced by Taylor Smith at the last minute for the Super Bowl? Who is Taylor Swift's boyfriend? etc...
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    That's indeed a simple and elegant solution. However, to get the most/best out of the TDA1541A requires quite an amount of work. I like this one, but it's not exactly minimalist:
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Peter Qvortrup knows how to finance his collection of Benzes, so you only get decent boards in your Audio Note DAC from level 3 and up. This is the PCB used in level 4 and 5:
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Came across a thread about NOS DACs in which filtering and grounding were discussed. Audio Note 1.1x, not the best but overall quite analog sounding. It's quite minimalist, but the analog filtering is based on some cheap Philips MKT capacitors. This is a prototype DAC board around the same...
  22. D.Duttilleux

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Most loudspeakers at the time covered 50 -10.000 Hz It's not about bandwidth per se, but how to (mis)use it. There's a wealth of information available online. The year 1953 is particularly interesting.
  23. D.Duttilleux

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Analog recordings have unlimited bandwidth. Digital audio uses sample rate and bit depth to reconstruct the analog signal in the digital realm, creating a fixed bandwidth. These are the basic reasons why vinyl often tends to sound better in sophisticated setups. It's also the main reason behind...
  24. D.Duttilleux

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    From the same source also came the implicit confirmation - by a NASA (Artemis) employee, that 'we' have never actually been to the moon :eek:o_O Am I surprised? Do I care? No, because I still enjoy the Apollo launch videos and the stories of people (on another forum) who witnessed it as a kid...
  25. D.Duttilleux

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Agreed, I'm not suggesting analog is better. As the saying goes, “there are two sides to every coin”.
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Reminds of an explanation of dark matter > "it's not dark and it doesn't matter".
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Anyway, I think you'll agree that analog is continuous and digital is 'chopped'. The basic principle: The red digital signal is the sampled and quantized representation of the gray analog signal. A digital signal consists of a sequence of samples, which in this case are integers: 4, 5, 4, 3, 4...
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Earlier I wanted to ask how you like that DAC ;)
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    AES paper (previously published by the author in the public domain):
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    It's a schism: analog data represents a continuous function of time while a digital signal transmits data in a discrete function of time. "Analog waves are smooth and continuous, digital waves are stepping, square, and discrete." A similar phenomenon is at play with Class A compared to any...

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