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is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl

sam here with another question. is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl ? i realize i'm gonna get ripped a new a-hole however this is not a joke question. honest answers please i can take the heat

as crazy as it sounds it seams perfectly logical to me. now here is what i did using my 2013 dell pc windows 7 32bit.

using foobar 2000 with the convolver dsp filter i made an impulse file consisting of a 1 second wave file extracted at 32 / 88 

from the intro to pink floyds us and them on 1st press vintage vinyl u.k harvest label. just the surface noise before the music 

starts and applied the impulse file to a digital album to see if the digital album now sounds like vintage vinyl.here's the results

not sure if i made the digital audio sound worse or really what i achieved ? feedback will help me decide if i should

abandoned this pipe dream and move on. source is digital download flac 16/44 same source for both before/after samples.

audio sample 1: http://pc.cd/GB3

audio sample 2 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/7eA

audio sample 3: http://pc.cd/7DP7

audio sample 4 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/bw2

audio sample 5: http://pc.cd/3etrtalK

audio sample 6 (impulse applied) http://pc.cd/lTf7
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jafreeman
689 posts
 
I would give credence to Mike Lavigne’s listening experience. Having only digital, I liked that he once said his new digital setup is "staring vinyl in the face". He may find digital to be really good, but when he goes on to say that, after a high level of commitment in his system to both formats, vinyl still cannot be equaled, his findings deserve respect.
dgarretson
2,588 posts
 
Mike’s experiments are conducted at the state of the art of both formats. At less than SOTA, YMMV.

BTW, Mike: what digital recorder did you use?
heaudio123
689 posts
 
I respect his personal opinion, but as pointed out, we don't know if the MSB DAC is programmed to be technically accurate or true to the signal. I remember some tests of a very high end MSB that showed significant IM distortion, not something one would expect with the figures they were presenting. I am not knocking its sonics, just pointing out incongruence. If it is tuned sonically, not for technical accuracy, then it will color, however minimally, whatever goes through it.

I would give credence to Mike Lavigne’s listening experience. Having only digital, I liked that he once said his new digital setup is "staring vinyl in the face". He may find digital to be really good, but when he goes on to say that, after a high level of commitment in his system to both formats, vinyl still cannot be equaled, his findings deserve respect.

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tomic601
12,757 posts
 
I respect Mike for sure and have myself gone down the triple path of high speed tape, Digital and LP. The quality of the A2D converter is everything, I use three: Wadia 17, Pro4000 and an Ayre..... they all sound different thru the same Aesthetix DAC.....
the formats have various strengths and weaknesses, iF you think digital can’t throw a massively deep soundstage look no further than 2L the Nordic Sound :-)

Fun, enjoy the music not the dogma 


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tomic601
12,757 posts
 
I will say one thing that really cracks me up is all this argument about lossy formats when listening to mid ranges that are out of phase ( breakup ) 1/3 of the time.....


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