In Reply to: as it should ... posted by TBone on March 13, 2015 at 17:39:27:
I don't agree that the CD format "took years to mature sonically".... The format itself was fine from the get-go, there has not been a lot of rigs out there that give satisfactory results.
In fact, due to the lack of satisfactory CD playback, I believe CDs later on were optimized for the compromised playback at large. But on a good rig, some of the best sounding CDs I've heard came out during the first decade of production.
I also think the best CD playback was from the "20-bit 8x oversampling" era of the 1990s. But I haven't heard the really recent gear, which may be vastly improved relative to the products of just a few years ago.
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Follow Ups
- RE: as it should ... - Todd Krieger 03:01:10 03/14/15 (4)
- "took years to mature sonically" ... if we have to give credit to some reviews ... - beppe61 09:35:10 03/16/15 (2)
- RE: "took years to mature sonically" ... if we have to give credit to some reviews ... - TBone 11:16:19 03/16/15 (1)
- RE: "took years to mature sonically" ... if we have to give credit to some reviews ... - beppe61 05:26:09 03/18/15 (0)
- RE: as it should ... - TBone 05:15:16 03/14/15 (0)