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Well I guess that settles it.

Heh. But… yeah, mono records, not obsolete for all of us yet anyway. Have fun listening to inexpensive copies of mono recordings using...

Heh, I’m an idiot. I had the mode on the Phono DSP set to mono summed when doing the comparison yesterday. (Was playing an old Beach...

I compared side A and streaming, roughly level matched “by ear”. And it was a huge difference, particularly in the bass frequencies...

The LP isn’t really an appealing alternative. It’s cut very quiet, and the swells lack much of the drama with less bass. Might have...

For older recordings sometimes the master tapes get damaged before digital transfer. This is the exception not the rule but comparing...

Just my opinion, but I’m pretty sure most people do… not… care. I do when listening at home, but I’m not most people. ;)

Just happened to be catching up on recently thrifted CDs, listening to the original Bryan Ferry - Boys And Girls CD release between...

A couple files I did for something else. SACD and vinyl were done as an AP release mastered by Kevin Gray. The Kleos does not have...

I take “sounds better” there to be meant as entirely subjective. Re the same master, on CD and LP for example, I’ve found the...

Sorry for the repetition (I’ve shared this quote here before), but I think it speaks to the above. Amirm wrote, "it is my firm belief...

Eh, opportunities to still offer the best sounding versions pretty easily where the tape degraded before the first digital transfer are...

I agree, and I probably shouldn’t try and speak for others. Myself, I find it very surprising that forty years after digital playback...

If the tape for a release degraded between original LP release and first digital release, the artists and or labels could pretty easily...

From Record Stores Have Stopped Reporting Vinyl Sales For Billboard Charts: ”On its face, such a precipitous drop might appear...