Yes, both formats can be made to sound very good indeed!

Posted by Al Sekela (A) on August 2, 2006 at 15:02:25

In Reply to: Can CDs sound like LPs?? posted by mdaly39 on August 2, 2006 at 02:56:54:

Many people who love the sound of LPs have tweaked their setups to overcome the well-known problems with LP playback. They achieve very good sound. Then they insert an expensive CD player without any attention to the particular problems of CD playback, and are disappointed in the CD sound. It is natural to blame the medium, but the problem is with the setup.

CD playback suffers particularly from horizontal vibration of the transport, and RF electrical noise. A computer-based player eliminates the CD drive servo mechanism's sensitivity to horizontal vibration, but may increase the problems with RF noise.

There is plenty of information here and on the Tweaks asylum about these issues. Once you achieve a good setup, you will find that you enjoy CDs so much that you cannot go back to the pitch distortion of off-center LPs.

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Topic - Can CDs sound like LPs?? - mdaly39 02:56:54 08/02/06 (19)

Re: Can CDs sound like LPs?? - Music Machine 20:31:23 08/06/06 (0)

I don't know... - Julien43 11:29:16 08/06/06 (0)

Re: Can CDs sound like LPs?? - bluesman 07:59:03 08/04/06 (0)

Re: Can CDs sound like LPs?? - kstagger 16:29:22 08/03/06 (0)

Re: Can CDs sound like LPs?? - hahax@verizon.net 20:04:13 08/02/06 (1)

So what about strawberry?... nt - clarkjohnsen 11:04:55 08/04/06 (0)

Yes, both formats can be made to sound very good indeed! - Al Sekela 15:02:25 08/02/06 (0)

A tough one..... - damage k 13:52:28 08/02/06 (0)

Re: Can CDs sound like LPs?? - saxguy 12:56:15 08/02/06 (0)

Re: Can CDs sound like LPs?? - hairydog 11:58:50 08/02/06 (1)

Yes!!! - PorkPieHat 03:13:32 08/04/06 (0)

BlueNote Stibbert - thetubeguy1954 11:30:29 08/02/06 (0)

No - PAR 11:02:08 08/02/06 (0)

Some record players sound like digital than others... - kuma 10:38:30 08/02/06 (0)

Give the new Rega cd players a listen. - tketcham 06:53:44 08/02/06 (0)

Re: Can CDs sound like LPs?? - BAJ 06:36:29 08/02/06 (0)

ableton has a filter for that - that's, my name 05:29:41 08/02/06 (0)

Try an non-digitally filtered dac - Frihed89 03:57:19 08/02/06 (0)

Re: Can CDs sound like LPs?? - profbrookes 03:53:32 08/02/06 (0)

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Yes, both formats can be made to sound very good indeed! - Al Sekela 15:02:25 08/02/06 (0)

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