Old Classic LP Disks

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lord_shrex said:
What can i do with my mom & Dad's LP Disk collection,
They ve got classics like floyd,police etc

("The Darkside of the moon", would be placed along side my body during my cremation :))

But the other expendable stuff can it be sold ? :ashamed:
And if i wanna maintain these things how should I go about that ?
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Irrespective of any thing, sell me all PF stuff. I am ready to take all though I dont have any LP player ;) Please PM me :ohyeah:
 
Well you'd not realize when it starts and when it ends :P. Plus each side of the LP is just 20 minutes.

Got anything else other than the ones you posted above? I have almost all of those.
 
^^They just sound very very different. You just have to experience it to know. The LP has a higher noise floor with some pops and clicks here and there but sounds more organic/natural and typically has much better timing. Digital sounds cleaner, has blacker backgrounds but can feels artificial at times. It all depends where your priorities are.
 
This is the bit thats hard to understand you're saying you can tell the difference between a lossless rip and the LP itself.

In both situations, you are hearing the same thing, technically speaking, yet you can perceive the difference, how is that ?
 
They are completely different, you can open the LP and rip files in a wave editor and see very different things.

You're not talking vinyl rips, but CD rips I assume. It is like comparing tape and CD. The formats are completely different, as are the media and playback method. Of course they will sound different.
 
Oh no..i meant vinyl rips. no cd here at all.

To be clear, from the deck to the sound card and then either wav or FLAC/APE (your pick).

and compared with the actual LP playing from the same amp.

They are completely different, you can open the LP and rip files in a wave editor and see very different things.
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This is the bit that i cannot understand. Assuming you use acceptable cables + sound capture.

Why is there an audible difference between
deck-->amp--->your ears vs
deck-->digital file-->amp-->your ears

:)
 
I have the original micheal jacksons thriller on LP, dirty dancing and some i never heard of. All were bought my by uncle though. He quickly moved on to cassettes and now no body listens to these LP's.
 
Chaos said:
^^They just sound very very different. You just have to experience it to know. The LP has a higher noise floor with some pops and clicks here and there but sounds more organic/natural and typically has much better timing
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While on the subject, how is a Tube amp sound different from LP sound? Far different?
 
Assuming you use acceptable cables + sound capture.
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What is the definition of 'Acceptable'? There is no such thing as a lossless vinyl rip. You lose one conversion step (called 'generation') when you convert it to digital, the accuracy of your conversion determines what the sound is like.

You may consider a Asus Xonar Dx as 'acceptable', I may not want anything less than a Lynx System 2 ($3000), and Chaos may want a Prism Orpheus ($8000). All three will sound different, for sure.

It's like a painting. Assuming the painting is the original performance, and the analog is = film capture and digital = DSLR. If you scan the negative and compare both the images, you will have to be blind to not see the differences.
 
nice analogy, cranky

blr_p said:
Why is there an audible difference between

deck-->amp--->your ears vs

deck-->ADC-->digital file-->amp-->your ears

:)
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you missed this step, that of the Analog to Digital Converter.This is a lossy process & amount of loss would depend on the recording system like cranky mentioned.
 
the accuracy of your conversion determines what the sound is like.
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Yeah, this is the key bit here.

It appears that it would be ridiculously expensive to produce a comparable vinyl rip that is indisitinguishable to the LP.
 
I think you misunderstood, i meant it would be very expensive to digitally reproduce the sound you could get straight of the vinyl.

Unlike with CD where its just a digital copy, the lossless rip ought to be as near indistinguishable from the CD.
 
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