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1 hour ago, Anthony MD said:

Maybe a $25,000 + CD player would sound better but not worth it compared to an equivalent LP player…!

What I’m trying to convey, is Film and digital are two distinct formats that should be kept separated not made to look like each other but appreciated for their individual qualities…🎞️📷

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vor 15 Stunden schrieb Anthony MD:

Maybe a $25,000 + CD player would sound better but not worth it compared to an equivalent LP player…!

Maybe my LP player is to cheap, because it’s hardly possible for me to hear the difference between my LP player and my Rotel Cd player, listening  to the same recording. 
There must be double blind Scientific reasearch somewhere to objectify these statements? 
And what about digital pictures perfectly resembling analogue? 

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16 minutes ago, Paulus said:

Maybe my LP player is to cheap, because it’s hardly possible for me to hear the difference between my LP player and my Rotel Cd player, listening  to the same recording. 
There must be double blind Scientific reasearch somewhere to objectify these statements? 
And what about digital pictures perfectly resembling analogue? 

A better turntable will allow the differences between digital and vinyl more apparent…!🎙️

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1 minute ago, Anthony MD said:

A better turntable will allow the differences between digital and vinyl more apparent…!🎙️

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Audiophile LP’s are essential to hear the difference…🎙️

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Film vs. digital…🎞️📷

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4 hours ago, Anthony MD said:

A better turntable will allow the differences between digital and vinyl more apparent…!🎙️

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So it all comes back to ‘mine is better than yours’?  Although there is the theory that what you do with it that counts. 

I think claiming a higher ground was what started this thread and the very thing that defeats the premise. You may like how you engineer the things you like, and you may not like what other people do, but technology is not equivalent to creating your own aesthetic, it is simply consuming somebody else’s aesthetic whether from the original music artist or the people who built the deck or amp.

Which is very different from making your own photograph and deciding how you want to render it, you are not starting from somebody else’s starting point.

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20 hours ago, Anthony MD said:

Film vs. digital…🎞️📷

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IMHO, digital can never look (exactly) like film the same way digital can never sound (exactly) like vinyl…📷🎞️💿🎙️

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vor 48 Minuten schrieb Anthony MD:

IMHO, digital can never look (exactly) like film the same way digital can never sound (exactly) like vinyl…📷🎞️💿🎙️

I would recommend a little restraint in making such absolute statements. It sounds a bit like "Cars will never replace horse-drawn carriages" or "Machines will never beat humans at chess". We all know how that turned out.

Rather, the trajectory of technological progress clearly shows that it is only a matter of time before the techniques used to digitally imitate analogue audio, such as tape or vinyl, or analogue film, are so advanced that they exceed the limits of human perception.

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14 minutes ago, Homo Faber said:

I would recommend a little restraint in making such absolute statements. It sounds a bit like "Cars will never replace horse-drawn carriages" or "Machines will never beat humans at chess". We all know how that turned out.

Rather, the trajectory of technological progress clearly shows that it is only a matter of time before the techniques used to digitally imitate analogue audio, such as tape or vinyl, or analogue film, are so advanced that they exceed the limits of human perception.

I used the wording, “IMHO”, and I have both a high end CD player and turntable which I compare exactly the same recordings on both formats to reach my conclusion…🎙️

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vor 17 Minuten schrieb Anthony MD:

I used the wording, “IMHO”, and I have both a high end CD player and turntable which I compare exactly the same recordings on both formats to reach my conclusion…🎙️

Well, good for you. But you said

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IMHO, digital can never look (exactly) like film the same way digital can never sound (exactly) like vinyl

And I only doubted the "never".

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vor 28 Minuten schrieb Anthony MD:

I used the wording, “IMHO”, and I have both a high end CD player and turntable which I compare exactly the same recordings on both formats to reach my conclusion…🎙️

So may I conclude, that with my low end Cd - and LP player, the comparrisson will be the same? I stil cannot hear the difference. Yes subjectively I can, but objectively it’s hard. 
 

I also cannot see if a photographer used a digital or a analogue camera in shooting his war photos . 
 

https://eddyvanwessel.com/the-islamic-state

 

Allthough it’s pretty obvious in some negatives: the ones who were damaged because his camera was fallen into a river and stayed there for a day and night before retrieving it. 

 

 

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Funny discussion we had 40 years ago when the first CDs hit the market. I had a modest Philips CD player which sounded better than my Thorens turntable with SME arm then. It's been the end of analog audio for me and the beginning of digital expenses too... Same with photo more or less, i must have shot my last film in the nineties. YMMV.

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vor 37 Minuten schrieb lct:

Funny discussion we had 40 years ago when the first CDs hit the market. I had a modest Philips CD player which sounded better than my Thorens turntable with SME arm then. It's been the end of analog audio for me and the beginning of digital expenses too... Same with photo more or less, i must have shot my last film in the nineties. YMMV.

I was listening in Eindhoven in the laboratorium to the first CD recording some  43 years ago I believe . On an excursion with our music- Class when I was 17. I have never forgotten the impression. I was flabbergasted by the clearness of the recording. 
The man at Phillips said, that the DDD recording on record could in no way compete with the DDD recording on CD . He wasn’t talking about AAA recordings at all because they were focussing stricktly on classical DDD recorded recordings. 
The first CD “ IGY “ from Donald Fagen was unbelievable clear on my simple Harman Kardon with Studiocraft boxes + phillips cd player. Never thought about it in that time that lp records and analogue photography would grow back in this way. Very interesting. 

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56 minutes ago, Paulus said:

So may I conclude, that with my low end Cd - and LP player, the comparrisson will be the same? I stil cannot hear the difference. Yes subjectively I can, but objectively it’s hard. 
 

I also cannot see if a photographer used a digital or a analogue camera in shooting his war photos . 
 

https://eddyvanwessel.com/the-islamic-state

 

Allthough it’s pretty obvious in some negatives: the ones who were damaged because his camera was fallen into a river and stayed there for a day and night before retrieving it. 

 

 

A high end turntable, $5000+, will in fact reveal the separation of instruments in space unattainable by CD players…🎙️

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46 minutes ago, lct said:

Funny discussion we had 40 years ago when the first CDs hit the market. I had a modest Philips CD player which sounded better than my Thorens turntable with SME arm then. It's been the end of analog audio for me and the beginning of digital expenses too... Same with photo more or less, i must have shot my last film in the nineties. YMMV.

The convoluted experience I’m having is liking vinyl over CD, whilst favoring digital over film📷🎞️
 

I had the Thorens SME setup at the time of purchasing a Meridian CD player.  Sold the turntable and regretted it ever since…🎙️

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vor 1 Minute schrieb Anthony MD:

A high end turntable, $5000+, will in fact reveal the separation of instruments in space unattainable by CD players…🎙️

Sorry, I just bought an as new used Leica MP so a €3000,- LP player has to wait some time. 
 

Maybe another thought: I listened to classical music a lot. Heard some concerts of the same piece a hundred times or more life. The thing was, that a lot of the time, it was impossible to reveal the seperation of instruments. Would it be better to hear a recording or the same music on record? 
 

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