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Sound quality

DJ Gatek 9:52 AM - 21 March, 2010
The thing is vinyl still sounds better. Though now I use mostly lossless files from original CDs or legal downloads. But vinyl still sounds fatter on the same system. Why? Is it because of the mechanic nature of the groove-to-needle relationship or maybe different mastering?
So I wonder is there any way to process files to make digital sound better? I mean there should be a way to make them sound the same. I guess its only a matter of preparing files for big sound systems. What's so special about vinyl that can't be replicated digitally? (its not about "feel", just the sound quality, ok?)

Any audio headz?

Thanks.
mikep 6:11 PM - 21 March, 2010
I think it comes down to the basics of analog vs. digital. digital might sound "cleaner" while analog will sound "fuller" and or as you said fatter. Even the songs I copied from my records sound generally more full bodied than the cd rips of the same song.
DJ Gatek 7:00 PM - 21 March, 2010
Yeah, and that's strange. Vinyl rips sounds better sometimes. But they are DIGITAL now, right? So there should be a way to achieve that effect on CD rips as well.
ZESH! 9:33 PM - 21 March, 2010
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Vinyl rips sounds better sometimes. But they are DIGITAL now, right?
I believe most new recordings are digitally recorded today, not like the old days when it was first recorded on to an analog tape, then eventually pressed onto vinyl.

a quote from an article I just read:
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"a CD was like walking into a room with a high-watt, bare light bulb illuminating every nook and cranny in the room. An LP was like walking into the same room, but with soft indirect lighting that bathed you in the warmth of its glow."
Ripping vinyl into a digital file is like taking a picture of the second rooom he mentioned
mikep 11:13 PM - 21 March, 2010
And if you take a vinyl ripped wav file and process it too much it begins to sound "digital" or "digitized". some programs let you "restore" the vinyl sound to a digital file. I think they just add some hiss or static to make it sound like a record but I don't think it really helps with the fuller warmer sound of a real record.