No need for anything but ears to know which is which. Vinyl has break up in channel (right) with massed voices and strings, the other channel is little better.
Okay, on first run through something is going on here, intentionally or otherwise. One version at the moment appears to be changing in quality as it progresses through the track, specifically, getting worse. I'll need to rev up the playback environment, current laptop, a bit more and listen again to get a better handle on it ... I'll beee baaack ...
Had that second listen, which comfirmed my first impression: 1.wav initially sounds slightly more "zippy", but steadily deteriorates through the length of track; by the end it is quite unpleasant; a.wav is consistent throughout in tonal quality, and maintains an overall cleanness; so, a.wav is the choice.
My guess would be that a.wav is the digital track, that hasn't had any processing; 1.wav shows the classic symptoms of live digital processing, where a "dirtiness" starts to build over a period of time.
My guess would be that a.wav is the digital track, that hasn't had any processing; 1.wav shows the classic symptoms of live digital processing, where a "dirtiness" starts to build over a period of time.
Dan's sensitivity to polarity demonstrates how each of us learns to register different aspects of the sound - I was blissfully unaware of any such factor, entirely, 😀.
I hope I don't get shot at for this, but how do you guys feel about ReplayGain?
Reason I ask is, on first listen 'a' sounded slightly louder to me than '1', making it hard to listen for other differences beyond that. After track gain analysis in Foobar, ReplayGain claims 'a' is louder than '1' by .22 dB. After level matching it was a close call, but I eventually chose 'a' because I'm hearing slightly less breakup in the massed strings and vocals on that track.
-- Jim
P.S. Thanks for these, Pavel.
Reason I ask is, on first listen 'a' sounded slightly louder to me than '1', making it hard to listen for other differences beyond that. After track gain analysis in Foobar, ReplayGain claims 'a' is louder than '1' by .22 dB. After level matching it was a close call, but I eventually chose 'a' because I'm hearing slightly less breakup in the massed strings and vocals on that track.
-- Jim
P.S. Thanks for these, Pavel.
I've never done this before, but I set up two tracks in Audacity with the original of one file, and then a copy inverted, and played them switching from one to the other on the fly - to see if I could pick the behaviour. Yes, there is an audible variation, and I can see how one could learn to pick the characteristic - but it's not something I would personally see as a high priority.
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5. Sitting in the parking lot at Dairy Queen on a gorgeous early summer evening in 1966, nine years old, eating ice cream and listening to the cool new song by the Mamas & the Papas on the AM radio in the Olds F-85 sedan. That one was definitely the best. 🙂
-- Jim
Hmm. Well it's not inner-groove distortion, as this is the first track on the LP.* Maybe you're hearing the inverse, i.e. outer-groove extra-cleanness? 😉
-- Jim
*Unless this is the 45 version? The plot thickens...
Um... Show of hands? How many are hearing massed voices and strings in the left channel?
-- Jim 😕
When the system is good enough acoustic AP becomes mission critical ime.
Asymmetric waveforms must be reproduced in correct AP.
Asymmetry defines direction, and inverted reproduction sounds distorted.
Think it through.
Dan.
You do not need dropbox. Click anywhere outside login window, it disappears and you can download then.
Don't know how phase inversion affects but since poll has started lets not waste the work done. My hearing is not good so give merit as such. My newbie and curious query is, would listening to one speaker/headphone of alternate channels i.e. left of first and right of second sample and again vice versa be any good ? I know music content will be little different but if one can focus on clarity and detail one can vote.
Regards.
Regards.
The gain was matched as close as possible. Vinyl and digital versions differ through the files, so exact volume matching everywhere is impossible.
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