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In Reply to: RE: Not So Fast posted by Inmate51 on March 23, 2015 at 10:19:54
Inmate, I know, from the end of the fifties on.
Just compare quality releases of the same recording on vinyl (45, 33, even 78)
with their counterparts on CD. CD's after +/- 1995 lifted the RMS power and suffer compression in my opinion to compensate for the lousy resolution at lower levels. Not HiFi anymore. Pre 1995 : CD's most are better, good dynamics, but no lifelike timbre/bloom because of low resolution low level signals, i.e. higher frequencies/harmonics. So CD's are INFERIOR regardless of playback gear , quality label or modern mastering techniques, this last is no HiFi , no dynamics.Of course it's my conclusion and the reason for the thread is: now what to do about it, I wondered if someone had a solution, some magic trick etc,against my scepsis. Mr Stehno's solutions are not relevant, even knowing better I already did that kind of things.
So, unfortunately the end of an era was the advent of digital. A good convenient format for the car, internet streaming, even at home but not imo and experience for music to enjoy.
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This is mostly incorrect as far as I am concerned , what type of music do you listen to ?
Disbeliever, music is music, taste is taste and is irrelevant.
I know some modern music like metal, disco, hardrock sounds lousy, that's for the kids, they think it's cool.
I am fond of 50-ties Bluegrass, Rock and Roll, Country, and Classical, pianoconcerts, violinconcerts, opera. Too much to mention. But irrelevant, there is no music that sounds especially good on CD or vinyl or tape, music is music, format doesn't matter.
Was that the purpose of your question ? Thanks for your response.
I listen mainly to Classical music on CD & mch SACD and do not experience your complaint which I find to be totally absurd, I enjoy my Hi-Fi hobby and have done so for more than 50 years .
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Disbeliever,
By the way multichannel is not HiFi, it's a special effect. I consider stereo also a special effect. There are less dynamics because to prevent the ping-pong effect dynamics must be compressed. The reverb and it's phase effect are annoying for me. (in reality the ear/brain focus on the music, not on the reverb, that's a natural phenominon. Reverb via loudspeakers can't be filtered out by the brain, you're obliged to hear it constantly, I think it's unnatural)
We differ obviously, I grew up with mono, class A amplifier (EL84) and 1 loudspeaker, never had any issues regrading listening fatigue or whatever.
Than came the drawback's : stereo, quadro, transistoramplifiers, cassettes, CD, DVD, multichannel, compression be it data or dynamics.
But you have no problems, that's fine, also luckey guy. You focus on the music I presume and forget about distracting things. Perhaps I have to learn that.
Huubdas I find your posts very very strange I also grew up with mono 78,s, & valves Quad, Leak, Radford however I did not like cassettes. I use the Sony XA5400ES player together with the Sony DA5400ES AVR UK version with HATS Jitter free HDMI, I use the pre-out of the receiver into the Arcam P49 power amp ( first 50 watts cool Class A) for front speakers, receiver excellent for centre & rear speakers.
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Never mind.
Lucky guy then.
Vinyl is the best format for many music lovers like me despite it's shortcomings, carefull handling is necessary, but that goes for CD's too.
It's all for the music and digital is a disappointment for me. (after 25 years of stubborn disbelieve)
What CD player do you use ?
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