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This is one reason needle drops can sound so much better than standard CDs. I think that digital EQ or processing was often done in 16/44khz (on many factory CDs) and thus pretty much ruined the sound quality coming from the master tapes on those CDs.
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I am hearing a cloudiness on some factory CDs that I do not hear on audiophile grade CDs, nor on vinyl, nor on my CR'd needle drops. Then more recently I got vinyl sounding really good again. I have had vinyl sounding good, and high-res sounding good, but CDs were sounding awful, then got CDs and the other digital right, but then hated my analog vinyl playback. I have good enough hearing that I have been through three receivers in two years looking for the right sound for my other gear and room. But as far as transients being truncated on the whole file (song) I don't hear that and I have pretty good hearing still. If I see any patterns or red blocks of correction, I make a note on paper, and I use the un-declicked file for that song. I also look at the wav files going by (during declicking), and as long as I am seeing only a few random red lines in no patterns then I feel pretty good.
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I listen for instrumental decay on piano notes or acoustic guitars, and the ambient backgrounds (room sounds, or the added reverb to vocals). I might be listening for the wrong things when I come to the conclusion that CR is not damaging the sound in any major way. Also albums with a lot of sawtooth synth do not handle declicking well. I also have a couple of old copies of Rumours with a lot of clicks but they cleaned up much better. I found it really hard to declick because the recording is very digital with a lot of sharp transients that were very close to clicks. You mentioned Fleetwood Mac and it reminded me of a UK copy of the album Tusk I got once that had quite a bit of clicks. In that case it all comes down to choosing the lesser of two evils for a more pleasant listening experience, the clicksor the dulling of some transients. On the other hand, sometimes declicking does remove stuff. but they can still be good for certain more difficult declicking. The Multi-Band ones are more effective but listening to the click-only output on them can be misleading as it sounds like there's some warbling, artifacting, etc. I've found that the "Single Band" settings are closest to ClickRepair. Also albums with a lot of sawtooth synth do not handle declicking well.ĭo you have RX Advanced? If so, keep trying different settings while listening to the click-only output until what you hear doesn't resemble the musical patterns in any way.
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In that case it all comes down to choosing the lesser of two evils for a more leasant listening experience, the clicksor the dulling of some transients. I've often been sure that declicking was dulling transients but when I did some serious A-Bing or blind comparisons, I realized it was my imagination more than anything else. It's easy to fall victim to expectation bias when doing declicking. Click to expand.Do you have RX Advanced? If so, keep trying different settings while listening to the click-only output until what you hear doesn't resemble the musical patterns in any way.