Heartland

robertzombie wrote:

Alex66 wrote:

robertzombie wrote:I played the Vision Thing LP over the weekend, it sounded incredible. Far warmer in tone than the CD, which sometimes suffers from digital "bite". The intro to When You Don't See Me was positively holographic!

Part of the harshness is down to too many CD players/DAC's being way way too clinical and P poor OPamp's in there. Then a lot of transfers were way too clinical too, or just badly done with little care to keep the originals sound intact..

I think in this instance it's more to do with the mastering. It's a fully digital recording, just sounds better on vinyl The Rhino remaster doesn't suffer as much.

I don't have the CD so can't judge ripped my LP to Wav files through a fairly custom set up. Gerrard 401 SME iv Lyra clavis, self designed RIAA preamp and self designed (analogue stage) AD convertor. Wish I still had the Turntable RIAA set up, would knock up a higher bit rate etc AD and re rip. Alas period of homelessness a divorce and I had to start a lot of stuff over again.

Alex66 wrote:

robertzombie wrote:

Alex66 wrote: Part of the harshness is down to too many CD players/DAC's being way way too clinical and P poor OPamp's in there. Then a lot of transfers were way too clinical too, or just badly done with little care to keep the originals sound intact..

I think in this instance it's more to do with the mastering. It's a fully digital recording, just sounds better on vinyl The Rhino remaster doesn't suffer as much.

I don't have the CD so can't judge ripped my LP to Wav files through a fairly custom set up. Gerrard 401 SME iv Lyra clavis, self designed RIAA preamp and self designed (analogue stage) AD convertor. Wish I still had the Turntable RIAA set up, would knock up a higher bit rate etc AD and re rip. Alas period of homelessness a divorce and I had to start a lot of stuff over again.

I wouldn't mind comparing that vinyl capture to mine.