Vinyl to Cd converter

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

I can understand that for some of you, this may be common knowledge, but less financially "free" people and the younger generations don't understand vinyl sound or the technology. Personally, I don't think calling someone ignorant because they ask a question about audio on, oh my gosh, an audio website is really appropriate. *shrug* thats just me.

I do think JimJ is the man on this, also try wikipedia to get a good understanding behind it.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Wow.
Are people really this stupid Jim?

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How are the dynamics of a record, are they compressed deeply by the producer just as CDs are? What do you sacrifice by transferring the record to the new medium? Can you maintain the dynamics (if superior)?

If anything, you'd lose information going digital...but whether or not it's a good sounding record depends on the engineer. There are great sounding LP's out there and there's drivel, just like on CD.

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

I can understand that for some of you, this may be common knowledge, but less financially "free" people and the younger generations don't understand vinyl sound or the technology. Personally, I don't think calling someone ignorant because they ask a question about audio on, oh my gosh, an audio website is really appropriate. *shrug* thats just me.
I do think JimJ is the man on this, also try wikipedia to get a good understanding behind it.

I understand that I could have done a little more background research but Im currently doing a paper on the Great Depression, preparing for a cultural group presentation, and studying for a Communications test. I was hoping someone already knew the answer and could easily explain it.

So basically I guess I need a little more information on the format of the information on records and cds first?

 

[mtlhead 10+ year member]

The dynamic range on records compared to a cd is huge

cd's have a dynamic range of 96dBs, whereas before cd's everything only had a range of 60dB....

analog recorders are still used though...i just finished mixing on an analog sound board...i bet you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between that and something done digitally quality wise

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

Alright, I think I have my question a little more fine tuned.

When the Gracenote tool identifies a music track, it goes based off patterns in the digital code that is written into the cd.

So, when the record gets converted to a cd, would the encoded data on the new cd not be different from the original digital data? Or is it simply not different enough to matter?

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

The dynamic range on records compared to a cd is huge
cd's have a dynamic range of 96dBs, whereas before cd's everything only had a range of 60dB....

Potentially. Again, it all depends on the engineers recording, mixing and mastering it that give it the dynamic range. Some pop and rap albums have dynamic range as little as 6 dbs. It goes from loud to a little bit louder, thats it. There are some audiophile CDs (such as Telarc, Sheffield Labs.....etc.) that have a dynamic range up over 60 dbs.

 

[mtlhead 10+ year member]

Potentially. Again, it all depends on the engineers recording, mixing and mastering it that give it the dynamic range. Some pop and rap albums have dynamic range as little as 6 dbs. It goes from loud to a little bit louder, thats it. There are some audiophile CDs (such as Telarc, Sheffield Labs.....etc.) that have a dynamic range up over 60 dbs.

true, i should have mentioned that it depends on the music...but digital recordings are capable of a 96dB change