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Deja Vu all over again

The Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young remastered album is available on Qobuz for streaming at 192kHz 24bit.  It sounds great.  I have the original vinyl that I bought in the late 70s.  This remastered version has a very crisp clean sound with good soundstage depth and width.  I especially like the song, "Almost Cut my Hair". The song seems almost comical to me at the beginning but the mood changes for me as the song continues into a serious and good discussion.
I believe this digital version has little to no compression since I have my preamp volume set at 50 for my normal listening level.  Compare that to some pop albums on Qobuz at 44kHz 16bit that I play at a volume level of 27-33.
I believe the compression level is proportional to the volume level I use for my normal listening level.  For example, ROON shows the dynamic range of each of my CDs that I have ripped as FLAC files into my Library.  I see dynamic range as low as 8 and as high as 18.  The 18 is for a Telarc CD and is exceptional.  I notice my volume level for normal listening level is correlating to this Dynamic Range value.  Of course the higher dynamic range recordings have some nice loud peaks.

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teo_audio
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Yes but pity the stereo channel separation is 70% better on CD than vinyl.
For vinyl just 30db at 1khz and almost mono in the bass and around 20db in the highs. CD 120db all through the range. And then there’s the noise difference🤦‍♂️

Cheers George
Yes, George, that’s nice. one problem though.

the ear hears via micro and macro peaks or transients. and the major error component of a digital signal system or a class d amplifier, is the micro and macro transient peaks are all out of place in time and level.

the part of an analog signal that a slab of vinyl and cartridge do indeed get right, is that transient.

that’s the one thing they do well, and surprise surprise, it is exactly what the ear needs to hear to able to decode a complex music signal.

so the slab of wax --- actually wins. There is a reason people think it is superior to CD. because in the fundamental way that is important, it actually is.

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