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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: Analog vs. Digital... without BS.

Post Subject: If we are into a valid comparison - should we not compare the Raw file to a master tape?Posted by Doron on: 8/18/2009

I gave a thought to your claim of a non-objective and superficial judgment of digital audio when comparing CD's to LP's.
If I understand it correctly, the raw file has potential to sound very good (given no losses or damage when downloading and given a proper computer DAC and minimal jitter and noise when playing it).
From my limited experience and trusting my ears I tend to agree since many acoustical LP recordings pressed from an original digital recordings from the late 70's sound much more convincing and lively than their dead and sterile CD or SACD versions. Which means that at some point (the original ADC to a raw file) the music was there and got lost in translation to the CD/SACD/DVD-Audio.

However if we compare apples to apples should we not say:
Commercial products like CD's should be compared to Commercial products like LP's?
Should we not compare the raw digital file to its counterpart analogue master tape for the comparison to be fair?

Just a thought.

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