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In Reply to: You do not know what you are talking about. posted by John Marks on April 4, 2016 at 18:34:13:
From the Goldmine article "Audio Fidelity's gold CDs put the label in a class by itself"
Posted in Articles, High Fidelity | Tags: 24-karat gold CD, Audio Fidelity, audiophile record label, gold CDs in October 31, 2011
GM: Beyond the remastering process, what's the biggest difference between Audio Fidelity's 24-karat gold discs and redbook CDs?
MB: It always comes down to how well it was recorded to begin with and the source that we're working with. When we get our hands on the original masters, it's always a joy. But sometimes you don't have the luxury of getting an original master and what you get is a "one-off" from the original master. We have to make sure there's no EQ, there's no Dolby [Noise Reduction] — it's a clear, exact identical copy of what the master would have been like. And that goes back to the talents of Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, and their ear and knowledge of where the tape came from, who tested it, who used it, how it was stored — all those factors are considered. But we're pretty lucky in that we usually can get a hold of the original master, and we work from that when we can. If not, we make sure that the source quality is something we know will yield a final Audio Fidelity product we can all be proud of. We always want to try and meet a standard so someone can listen to it and know that what they're listening to is different than a traditional CD. It's a better sound; whether it's 5 percent, 10 percent, 15 percent, in some cases it's 25 or even 50 percent better. It's for those people that hear the difference. That's whom I always wanted to make music for.
Notice that there is no mention of the technical superiority of gold over aluminum in regard to sound quality and Audio Fidelity has produced more gold CDs than anyone in recent memory. The response basically ignores the actual question and falls back to the response that the sound is really all about the mastering!
Comparing the files for gold and conventional CDRs a while back showed both copies were essentially bit perfect and that was enough for me to forego any further evaluation until someone issues a disc in both that shares a common master.
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Follow Ups
- RE: You do not know what you are talking about. - rkeman 15:19:06 04/05/16 (1)
- Then why did they use gold instead of silver? - genungo 15:55:00 04/05/16 (0)
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