See my article "Phase Equalization and its Importance in the Reproduction of Disc Records" in the Spring 2010 issue of the ARSC Journal. I am quite certain that there are many more digital EQ programs available now that meet the requirements of mimicking the phase response of analog filters, than there were at the time I wrote that article. The Virtual Phono Preamp in DC 8 through 10 is one of them.
But, I do not agree that digital EQ is necessarily more accurate. With properly designed analog EQ it's easy to get RIAA accuracy +/-0.1 dB from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, which I achieve in with the RIAA settings on my own archival phono preamp. I've designed several other RIAA phono preamps that are within +/-0.05 dB. These levels of accuracy can be achieved with any playback curve, and I doubt that a digital EQ program can do better. There may be other reasons for choosing digital phono EQ, but I don't think that superior accuracy is one of them.
Best,
Gary
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Multiple conversions
On 1/23/2018 5:28 AM, Ted Kendall wrote:
> Not all digital EQ exhibits the same phase characteristics as the
> equivalent analogue network, and this is important when applyng RIAA
> playback EQ, for example.
Some experiments I did a few years ago suggest that the parametric EQ and the "scientific filters" in Audition do mimic the phase characteristics of minimum-phase analog EQs. a quick test suggested that the EQs in DC-EIGHT (and presumably DC-NINE) do too. Those are only two programs, of course, but they offer the possibility of phase-correct digital de-emphasis.
Peace,
Paul
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> On 23/01/2018 11:09, Lou Judson wrote:
>> I don�t know in the ARSC community, but in generalaudio
>> engineering, digital EQ can be more accurate and efficient than
>> analog, and can be done in faster than real time. Why would you want
>> to do that, I�m curious.
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>> Mastering engineers do some work in analog domain, but not just
>> simple EQ.
>>
>> <L>
>> Lou Judson
>> Intuitive Audio
>> 415-883-2689
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>> On Jan 22, 2018, at 9:07 PM, Steve Smolian <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Using 96/24 throughout, what is present thinking about converting
>>> from a digital file to analog, equalizing, and reconverting, using 2
>>> computers and 2 converters?
>>>
>>> Steven Smolian
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