• I got my first digital masters back on Betamax in about '86, pre-DAT... Digital is fine but I miss the harmonics you get at the top of the spectrum from a true analogue recording... Isn't it true that the higher frequencies (which are inaudible to humans) are just lopped off to save on data? You'd think that'd be fine but there is a subtle difference when those frequencies are removed as the recording loses its full harmonic range... I can hear the difference anyway.... Everything's been mastered digitally for so long now that it probably makes very little difference to modern pressings/recordings...
    I've done plenty of A-B tests and vinyl always wins... It's the audiophile RLJ/helmet thread, innit? ;]

    This is a huge bone of contention between audiophiles as to whether it really makes a difference to the listening experience. HOwever, what you have stated is not really true. One, the microphones used to record the record will most probably have had a fequency response up to 20kHz and two, the speakers you are using to listen to the playback will have a very similar freq. response so no higher frequencies will have been recorded and even if they were your speakers probably wouldn't be able to reproduce them,

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