This IS a joke right? You need aYou need to use tube amps to really hear the difference.
Modern technology has the ability to accurately record from inaudible to painful. I don’t see much need for more than that. Far too many producers don’t give a rip about range, though. Loud is all that matters to them, soft doesn’t count.The theoretical dynamic range of 16-bit audio is ~96dB—i.e. from 0dBFS down to -96dBFS. That's more dynamic range than is actually usable for music. If you turned up the volume high enough to hear sounds at -95.9dBFS, the sounds at 0dBFS would deafen you. In practice, though, no converters—be they analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog—achieve perfect conversion, so a good modern 16-bit converter might have a noise floor of -92dBFS or so; early converters would have fared worse. Still not an issue.
This reminds me of the time shortly before CD's came out, when I got into 'analogue' dbx records (and cassette tape recorders). The records would include various information about dbx including funky charts like this: -The theoretical dynamic range of 16-bit audio is ~96dB—i.e. from 0dBFS down to -96dBFS. That's more dynamic range than is actually usable for music. If you turned up the volume high enough to hear sounds at -95.9dBFS, the sounds at 0dBFS would deafen you. In practice, though, no converters—be they analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog—achieve perfect conversion, so a good modern 16-bit converter might have a noise floor of -92dBFS or so; early converters would have fared worse. Still not an issue.
I had a Tandberg TD20A reel-to-reel and a DBX 224 Type II Noise Reduction System. These two devices in tandem made perfect copies of my vinyl that were indistinguishable from the original...clicks and pops included.This reminds me of the time shortly before CD's came out, when I got into 'analogue' dbx records (and cassette tape recorders). The records would include various information about dbx including funky charts like this: -
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And who doesn't like a funky chart?
tube amps, oxygen free copper cable, silver cable, quality turntable. Horn speakers sound good, too.This IS a joke right? You need a
The theoretical dynamic range of 16-bit audio is ~96dB—i.e. from 0dBFS down to -96dBFS.
It is. ~96dB in theory. Much more than vinyl, compact cassette and other analog storage.
But it's about mastering and loudness war. If you prefer classical music your decision was 100% right.
Rock & Pop: depending on your taste. Often I prefer the "not remastered" versions with more dynamics.
But not always. As an example: My Pink Floyd remastered CDs sound always fine. But as I went into
surround I prefer DVD-A, BD-A and SACD in 4.0, 5.1 etc.
And I found out that almost every surround mix has more DR than the stereo version.
to really compare fairly, you should compare just front left and right surround DR to CD DR. Or even FL, FR, + Center redirected to FL and FR.
DR readings that attempt to combine all 5 channels are surely going to be perceptually erroneous (given the often much low levels in LFE, surround, or center channels compared to FL and FR)
Comparing the only Front DR of a multichannel file to a stereo release is flawed. Most MCH mixes have plenty going on in the rears and centre.
The right way to measure MCH DR is to ignore channels with very low RMS and spikes which can be included in the DR calculation.
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