KeenObserver
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Lord we got a true koolaid drinker in you.
Since the dawn of recorded music the audiophiles dream has been to have access to a recording system that could offer us a input-output chain that could reproduce the live event. With the 16/44.1 digital recording that's what we got. Contrary to what you may read on the audiophool websites and magazines, there's never been a analog recording/playback system that can even come close to Redbook, the numbers don't lie here. The worlds best R-R decks are not even in the same ball park for accuracy in the audio chain. Anyone who chases "pure analog" sound is on a fools mission.
Once more it is Meridian/MQA stated mission to get all the record labels on board and have every new release MQA encoded.
So much for that audiophile dream we used to have, any access to a bit perfect copy of the original master tape will be gone and left in it's place will be a lossy codec with a number of hidden switches at hand to control what we can and cannot do with the file. Of course the labels have loved the idea from the very beginning. Do you believe they got into it to give us better sounding music?
As to the bottom line on vinyl, if you enjoy the nostalgic feel of it, that's all fine and good.
If you care about High Fidelity, the cutting of a new LP master stamper from any source, digital or analog, old or new recording, is a waste of material when the same could have been put into a digital source and listened to in bit perfect perfection..
God people, don't sell us down the river and come out of the dark ages.
I have to agree with you. An engineer that truly knows how to utilize the full capacity of 16/44.1 can produce outstanding results. The problem is that so much sub par music was dumped on CD.
Since a vast majority of recorded music was archived onto digital storage, I suspect that most new LP pressings come from digital sources. So much for "analog" sound.