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Originally posted by wolverine:


My question is, how do you know where the harmonic distortion components are actually added? It seems they could already have been put down on the vinyl itself in the recording or master-cutting process as easily as being added during the turntable playback. Or perhaps some of both?
My guess would be that the majority is added in playback, but there is almost certainly going to be some added in the original cutting process.

By the way, did you notice that the signal to noise ratio above the 1kHz test tone is about 80dB? So much for the criticism of vinyl being "noisy". 80dB is approaching the theoretical 96dB signal to noise ratio of digital.