Vinyl/CD

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For myself the most amazing piece of hardware is the humble permanent magnet
loudspeaker..am i the only person amazed that they are able to reproduce so many
different waveforms at several frequencies at once as well as they do (at least
to our ears)..or am I a mere fool?

Paul Maddox wrote:

> All,
>
> Someone posted a reply saying that CD's had a limit of 20Khz and so what was
> missing was some of the extra harmonics.. so I tried something...
>
>   I took a track I had on cd AND vinyl, I sampled the vinyl (at 44.116bit
> stereo) and cut it on a CD... guess what, its STILL sounded better than
> version that was on CD...
>
>   It cannot be sloppy mastering for the CD as I have Lots of things on both
> vinyl and Cd and they simply dont sound the same... listen to Tangram (TD)
> on CD and then the Vinyl..
>
>   From this I must conclude that one of two things is happening..
>
>   1) the Mastering for the Vinyl requires 'something' to be done to the
> audio for it to goto,
>   2) the Needle (or indeed the cutter, LP) 'Modifies' the sound in some way.
>
>   Any suggestions?
>
>   Paul
>
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