Post by Dominick on 01/13/26 at 01:21:22
So one of my recent annoyances has been with sibilance on one of my favorite female vocalist albums from Dinah Washington.
This album just takes me back to a time when young and listening to music at my uncle’s tailor shop when I worked as a kid. It was getting to the point where I did t even want to listen to the album anymore. The Esses and the zees were driving me nuts! Maybe this album was more excessive, but either way once you hear it….it’s hard to unhear.
Well….Today was a period of enlightenment. I had just received this album on vinyl as part of a backorder. To my surprise the sibilance is not present on vinyl. This leads me to believe that it was either never present, and introduced on the digital conversion, or just that the vinyl album by its analog nature just does not present itself where it pronounced and harsh.
Does anyone else have a similar experience and/or care to share a technical answer for how the sibilance is attenuated…..or lack there of, in the digital conversation.