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- From: gre253@its.csiro.au (Steve Green)
- Subject: Re: Comments on analog music
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- References: <IfK8wlC00WBM437WMh@andrew.cmu.edu> <3340422@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:42:43 GMT
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- In article <3340422@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>, kirk@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Kirk
- Lindstrom) wrote:
- >
- > >Why do I like it more ? Well, it sounds more like my recordplayer (not only
- > >the Linn CD, but also other brands). So what did they do ? Put a lot of
- > >LP distorsion on the discs, or a special 'analog distorsion' circuit in the
- > >players ?
- > >
- > >Sture
- > ----------
- > Well, what I think has happended is you might have gotten some CDs that
- > were mastered properly. A few yrs ago, I blew my brother away by
- > walking into a room at my house when he was visiting and listening to
- > some of his rock CDs on my old system. 10 seconds and I'd say "sounds
- > like an analog mastering". He'd pick up the CD jewel box and drop his
- > jaw and say "how could you tell?" I'd say "sounds like shit". Most of
- > the CDs he owned were CDs of his favorite rock records. Few that I heard
-
- I have a term for this "class" of CD - "shovelware"
- You can pick it a mile away. Photo-reduced copy of the LP cover as CD cover
- on
- a thin tacky bit of paper! Look-out - it's likely to sound EXACTLY the same
- as the LP pressing.
-
-
- > sounded very good when they were transferred to CD. They are getting
- > better now. Furthermore, I owned many "LaserLight" CDs of
- > classical music that I'd purchased for $3-$5 each and they sounded bad
- > to my ears also. I then started to get CDs made by GRP and Schefield
- > and could hear that they knew what they were doing. Even now I'm leary
- > of buying CDs unless I trust the engineering: GRP, Chesky, Schefield
- > and Telarc though I think the first 3 are "more musical" as a whole at
- > times. I've heard some good remastering done on the "Verve label" that
- > I'll probably start buying also (Joe Henderson).
-
- Many new AAD CDs sound very very good.
-
- >
- > Anyone agree and have other labels that are pretty sure bets to be well
- > mastered?
- >
- > Kirk out
-
- How about Naxos - haven't heard anything bad from them as yet.
-
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