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- From: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
- Subject: Re: Comments on analog music
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.203551.7856@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Reply-To: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- References: <IfK8wlC00WBM437WMh@andrew.cmu.edu> <3340422@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 20:35:51 GMT
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- In article <3340422@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>, kirk@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Kirk Lindstrom) writes:
- |> >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
- |> 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).
- |>
- |> Anyone agree and have other labels that are pretty sure bets to be well
- |> mastered?
- |>
- |> Kirk out
- |>
-
- Agreed. There are lots of horror stories about the early days of
- CD when companies would find a 'master' tape and rush it out on CD.
- There were some complete disasters. Some of the tapes were backups
- and several generations old and not the original masters. I heard
- of some that were done using master tapes that had RIAA equalization !
- Ouch !
-
- Thats why artists started taking an interest in reissues - the record
- companies didn't care about shipping a quality product. Thats why nowadays
- you'll see more reissues where the artists were involved in finding
- the master, restoring the quality, and lovingly mastering them.
- Santana's Lotus reissue is a case in point. Santana was personally involved
- and it is an excellent reissue.
-
- Some of my early CDs such as The Cars (first album), Golden Earring's
- Moontan, etc. are such pieces of junk.
-
- Nimbus has Classical and Indian Classical recordings of exceptional
- quality. They are recorded using the Ambisonics microphone system.
-