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The "great" sound of reel to reel explained

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I've been going in circles for decades wondering why the recordings that I made from my LP's onto my reel-to-reel machine sounded better than the original LP. Many arguments on this board have flared up from guys swearing that their recordings were better than the LP they recorded it from. I was and still am in that camp. Of course this defies all logic, but Wikipedia offers an explanation that makes sense to me. It explains why we love the sound of reel-to-reel so much.
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The Wikipedia explanation is below:
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dan_ed
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Wikipedia. It's in print, sort of, so it has to be correct. Right? ;-)
dan_ed
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My point, Mitch, is that Wikipedia is hardly a "verified" resource but yet so many people want to quote it or point to it.

As for the topic, I don't really care why it sounds better.
dan_ed
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Carlos, are you suggesting that digital process don't add their own colorations?
dan_ed
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Thanks, Carlos. It was this line that struck me a bit.
The truth of the matter is that the only way to make digital sound like analogue is to add distortion.

I don't disagree. If I was to be anal about it I would say "the only way to make digital colorations sound like analog colorations", etc.
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