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This Hoffman forum post apparently covers why the DR database is not appropriate for comparing vinyl and equivalent digital sources:The full quote: "Personally — and again, this is just me — I find many Red Hot Chili Peppers albums unlistenable on CD because of over-compression. But uncompressed from vinyl, all the subtleties come through. This is an uncompressed, lossless version of Californication more-or-less equivalent to what you get from a vinyl version of the album. Can you tell the difference?" Missing from this post are the data for the one specific album the author presents in support their argument, Californication:
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Very clearly that album has higher DN than download or CD (N.B. The author does refer to "many" RHCP albums as well, and that some of the ones presented above in effort to disproove the author's argument, in fact exhibit higher DR than other versions)
This is in fact not a formal logical falacy like "straw man", but a matter of honesty.
Is the DR database really accurate for vinyl?
Watch this great video by Ian Shepherd for the answer. I would love to hear your take on it. [media]
forums.stevehoffman.tv
'It's a pity that the algorithm on the DR database is the selected one. EBU R128 Lufs would be more useful.