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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
guitarsam

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georgehifi
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I have a similar question, is it possible to make CD sound like vinyl?

That’s what I did for the older cd’s.
It’s to "ruin" the 120db of channel separation that cd has by bleeding left and right together has from 20hz to 20khz and bring it’s channel separation down to only 30db in the mids, and 10db!!!! at each end (highs and lows) that a vinyl cartridge on a vinyl can do. https://ibb.co/Vtm8bNx

And it makes those old L/R ping pong sounding cd’s that are taken from the master (no vinyl involved) far more listenable like the vinyl does, because it’s the vinyl cartridge that ruins the channel separation that’s on the master in the first place.

Cheers George


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georgehifi
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DSP - Vinyl Emulation Mode

No where does it say what’s done to do it, my guess is to mimic the left to right separation that vinyl does so poorly compared to digital.

What I said earlier in this thread
"Here is the best channel separation a Lyra Dorian cartridge can do https://ibb.co/Vtm8bNx this if it’s done to a dac's output will richen things up, especially at the frequency extremes as they get mono’ized for want of a better word."

Cheers George


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georgehifi
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plus compander like DBX-3BX
Sorry but they sound shocking, sound goes through 2 million or was that 3 million of the worst 1970’s opamps ever made.
http://www.ka-electronics.com/images/jpg/3BX.JPG

Cheers George.
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georgehifi
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guitarsam OP
is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl

You can get it to sound much closer to older recorded vinyl richer sound, especially with early digital that were remastered to give that shocking pseudo ping pong stereo effect.

The output of the dac or cdp you use will be more than >100db channel separation, you’ll need to "kill this down" with a left to right bleed passive/or active network to "mimic" vinyl’s best of 35db in the midrange, and best 12db at highs and almost mono at lows.

Here is the best channel separation a Lyra Dorian cartridge can do https://ibb.co/Vtm8bNx this if it’s done to a digital output will richen things up especially at the extremes as they get mono’ized for want of a better word.


Cheers George
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