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Originally Posted by timaltman  What is the frequency response of vinyl? 100 Hz to maybe 15 kHz? |
It depends on the mastering gear before the lathe computer, the cutting system itself, and of course the playback gear.
MFSL's GAIN2 cutting system goes up to 122kHz. That's higher than 192kHz digital, but who's counting.
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Originally Posted by timaltman I'm listening to the album right now and it reminds me of listening to an old record player -- a mid-range assault on the ears. |
Hopefully some day you can enjoy well cut vinyl of a great recording on a legitimately flat playback setup. thumbsup
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Originally Posted by Cellotron Although amplitudes will be very small (to almost unmeasurable as you progress higher) in the vast majority of cuts once you get above frequencies of around 17kHz. |
Most needles roll off about there. How high can
you go?
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Originally Posted by timaltman If you're into that, you could easily reproduce that effect in the digital domain. You just have to do the proper testing to see what's going on. I'm sure someone could build a "Vinylizer" plug-in no problem. |
It depends... the things going on with some needles is pretty complicated because of the interferometry and it happening mostly in physics not electronics.
Great example is Ortofon's SPU cartridges...
http://www.ortofon.com/index.php?opt...110&Itemid=102
Those sell like hotcakes in some scenes that have caught on to it (hi Vincent), and it's definitely not a transparent sound. But listen to one, and tell me that you don't like it strictly for enjoyment purposes in comparison to a purely reference setup.
If it's so easy then where are the plugins? I'm not saying it's not easy, I'm just wondering why you think it's so easy.