Interesting. I don’t know about digitizing vinyl. I seem to have a problem with getting on board with that. I’m really impressed with how digital has come along me right now I’m focusing on that with my system. With the right equipment red book cd is amazing along with hi rez music files like dsd. I’ve been an advocate of the bluesound node in the past and all the tweaking that you can do with it, but after upgrading to an Esoteric Network player, wow. I haven’t played vinyl in a while. The future is truly digital, and after looking at my huge vinyl and cd collection, I’m afraid it’s probably streaming.
New take on CD vs Vinyl vs CD
What if I digitize a vinyl record, and compare that CD to both it’s rebook CD, and the actual record?
1. Clean record (using a VPI HW-17)
2. Put vinyl on turntable (Ortofon Blue cart)
3. De-magnetize vinyl using a Furutech Destat III
4. Record vinyl using a Harmon Kardon CDR 20
My Parasound Halo integrated allows nice A/B/C comparison.
I used 2 CD players: Sony CDPXA7 ES, and XA 20 ES
I put the song on (‘We got the beat’ Go-Go’s) all 3 sources at the same moment (using all 3 of my hands)
Though the turntable and it’s mediocre cart is the weakest link, it sounded pretty nice. I then switched back and forth and forth a few times till I had a winner.
By far the digitized copy of the vinyl sounded best. Not the outcome I expected.
I then A/B’d both CD players, with the result remaining the same.
Can anyone explain this, besides my psychologist?