@guitarsam wrote:
I'd suggest you consider the following: fads and fashion change for recording styles just as they do for clothing, hair, music, furniture and almost everything else in life.
In the recording studio, the choice of microphones used, their placement, the studio acoustics and treatment, the mixing console and so on have changed over the years. Likewise, the recording engineer and producer's choices when mixing down and adding special effects reflect the fads and fashions of the time when the recording was made. Then the final mix needs to be remastered for the commercial manufacture of the recording -- vinyl mastering has a different set of limitations and considerations than what is done for CD/digital releases.
A lot of old rock material that is re-released on CD is often processed to bring the sound more in line with today's fads and fashions. There are endless ways to do this with all of the toys available in the digital realm.
I think I said this before in another of the threads you started, but it never surprises me when the commercial CD release of an album has a different overall sound quality than the vinyl release, especially if one is comparing the original LP to a later and remastered reissue.
Likewise, I am also not surprised that, if you convert your own LPs to digital, those recordings become almost impossible to differentiate between.
i haven't owned a turntable in 20 years however listening to a vinyl rip i realized how superior the sound is to digital to my ears. and if i could convert digital audio to sound more like vinyl that would be a great compromise between the two formats.And then the two samples you provided are recordings from roughly 50 years ago.
I'd suggest you consider the following: fads and fashion change for recording styles just as they do for clothing, hair, music, furniture and almost everything else in life.
In the recording studio, the choice of microphones used, their placement, the studio acoustics and treatment, the mixing console and so on have changed over the years. Likewise, the recording engineer and producer's choices when mixing down and adding special effects reflect the fads and fashions of the time when the recording was made. Then the final mix needs to be remastered for the commercial manufacture of the recording -- vinyl mastering has a different set of limitations and considerations than what is done for CD/digital releases.
A lot of old rock material that is re-released on CD is often processed to bring the sound more in line with today's fads and fashions. There are endless ways to do this with all of the toys available in the digital realm.
I think I said this before in another of the threads you started, but it never surprises me when the commercial CD release of an album has a different overall sound quality than the vinyl release, especially if one is comparing the original LP to a later and remastered reissue.
Likewise, I am also not surprised that, if you convert your own LPs to digital, those recordings become almost impossible to differentiate between.