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Offline zipporaid

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Audiophiles - Is DT on vinyl worth it?
« on: September 03, 2011, 10:38:06 AM »
I've been thinking about giving DT more of my money, but wondering
if there's a noticable difference to the vinyl releases -

I know lots of people are all about it, but I'm thinking nowadays they probably
don't do a mastering from super high 24/96 or whatever high bit thing they
recorded in directly to vinyl... or do they?

And for the record I do actually have a super high end bang and olufsen
player from my folks, so it should actually be reproduced well.


Any thoughts?

Offline MetropolisxPt1

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Re: Audiophiles - Is DT on vinyl worth it?
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2011, 11:16:11 AM »

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Re: Audiophiles - Is DT on vinyl worth it?
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2011, 11:32:19 AM »
CD's have a larger frequency range then vinyl


https://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/audio-designline-blog/4033468/Audio-myth-Vinyl-better-than-CD-

Yeah, but:

 - In terms of bit depth and khz/second, CD's are relatively low quality audio.  Records don't have this problem.

 - Records are mastered with greater dynamic range.
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Re: Audiophiles - Is DT on vinyl worth it?
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2011, 01:20:31 PM »
Honestly, it depends largely on how the album was recorded and mastered. If the recording was analog, vinyl will often sound better, but if it's well recorded digitally, it may actually sound better on CD.

Offline zipporaid

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Re: Audiophiles - Is DT on vinyl worth it?
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2011, 04:21:59 PM »
that's kindof the thought process I had - I know they're recording digitally,
so my thought was they would take the masters and just have the cd version
pressed to vinyl... Can't see them really doing another mix or anything,
though from what I know, vinyl has to have more dynamic range (in that it
doesn't deal well with highly compressed sources)

 ???