[rollei_list] Re: why I'm not digital -( just for interest)
- From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:05:04 -0400
The problem with many of the recordings from the vinyl era rereleased
on CD was that they were mastered with the end pressings in mind and
so suffered from a certain excess of compressed dynamic range and
mix/EQed to compensate for HF loss beyond what the RIAA curve could
compensate for. This often explained why they sounded so much better
on the release medium for which they were intended, though there are
certainly reasons why vinyl sounds nicer than CDs no matter what the
mix...
Eric Goldstein
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On 4/14/06, Marc James Small wrote: (snipped)
> Classical music is one thing, as this was recorded at least from the early
> 1950's on very high-fidelity gear and almost always in stereo, and the
> pressings were almost always of like quality. But popular music, even when
> made with really good masters, was just puked out on cheap 45-rpm disks
> with little regard for quality. The first ten years of the Digital
> Revolution saw a bunch of older R&R stuff coming out on digitally
> remastered CD's which blow the socks off even the original LP's. I know.
> I've got stacks of this stuff. And Geza Anda's performance of Mozart's
> 21st Piano Concerto DOES sound better on the DG vinyl disk than on the
> tapes or CD's made from the same master.
>
> Marc
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