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guy sergeant wrote:

Can you describe how your vinyl playback and conventional CD playback fall short of what you are getting from FM?

Guy, you are asking a resemble question but what do you expect me to say? Do you expect me to convince you (or myself) that FM is totally different (including many “hidden” not obvious reasons) and way more advanced media then recorded music? Would I need to do the convincing? You see, a lot of people out there talk about audio with one or another level of authority and credibility and I very frequently approach to all that “taking” with very high level of skepticism. Why? Because I have seen and heard the actual results that the people are getting out there while they run this months. Probably I would approach with the same skepticism my own comments about the FM… until I had the tangible evidences that were able to assess by myself.  Therefore instead of reading my comments about the vinyl/CD vs FM how about I send you a WAV file with one of my recent recordings, no mater how premature those recordings are… There is a catch in here. Since I started my FM paranoia and have quite a few people connected me, some of them sent me the examples by my request. Thos people do claim that FM is very good but not at the point of my exuberant glorification. I agree with them because a have heard thier files and because none of them demonstrated any interesting (from my prospective) FM sound. I do not know why I have better result even at 20/44, but I do like my result better and in a way “different”. Anyhow, all that I might propose is send you a file and it you have a good sound digital interfaces would be the judge. Send me your address and feel free to share with other your finding after you listen the recording.

guy sergeant wrote:

Is the FM playback of 'non live' material still sounding better than your vinyl and cd?

Yes, it does. Most of the time when the stations broadcast well and use good sources.

guy sergeant wrote:

Have you tried recording vinyl with the Lavry?

Nope, I did not.

guy sergeant wrote:

I shall be trying a low budget experiment along similar lines tomorrow burning a cd directly from a live BBC Radio 3 concert (from the Leak tuner)via a relatively cheap Tascam CD Recorder. It will be interesting to see how much of the 'live' FM quality is preserved by this machine. Obviously it's not 24 96 standard but I'm interested to see whether the good aspects of the FM transmission are still preserved.

I am VERY skeptical that you might get any interesting result form it. You see, what I found so far, that as soon you put the uncompress VAW file to CD and convert it into whatever format the CD burners could accept then sound flying away form this recording with the speed of light. Record it to uncompress file and play it form there. DO NOT dump it to CD…

The Cat

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