Soundhound - now that's a pretty cool piece of gear. I would love to hear the sound of that thing. It's is really amazing how many studios still hang on to their vintage outboard gear and how much some new gear tries to emulate their sound!!

I got a standalone RIAA equalizer made by Recotron for about $35 or $40. I purchased it from the Wild West electronics web site.

It works fine.

Come on now, lets be civil!

There are two issues with digital recordings that we often confuse:

I thought that dynamic range was 16 bit or 24 bit sampling.

And that sampling rate was resolution (44.1K, 48K, 96K, etc.).

Vinyl has digital beat on sampling rate but not on bit depth. I still have a bunch of vinyl records which were dbx encoded and use a special decoder to retrieve the dynamic range. They work well!

Coming from a software engineering standpoint resolution meant bit depth to me, but it's an ambiguous term, thus is really pretty meaningless. Bandwidth, frequency response, S/N ratio, etc are terms with well defined meanings that I'd be interested in an example of vinyl beating digital by any significant margin.

"Digital sound forever." Remember the slogan that got a lot of people to replace entire lp collections with 16/44 compact discs?

All I know, is that lps have a much more realistic top end than CD. That's why they invented DVD-A and SACD: attempts to get even closer to the analog sound of lps (without the downsides, of course).

PERFECT SOUND FOREVER




[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited January 28, 2003).]

Ok, Soundhound, now you're getting into MY territory.

End to end acoustical recording. All the way, baby!

Now I'd like to get my hands on one of those.

Bits? WE DON'T NEED NO STINK'IN BITS!!

Well, back in my day we had to make our own bits, we didn't just run out and buy these fancy pre-made ones....