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this seems completely artificial to me...

Let's get concrete here. I love a CD called Time the Revelator by Gillian Welch. It is not out on LP nor on SACD nor on audiophile CD. It is a standard sounding CD. I find it remarkable and hypnotic and totally involving. Of course, I'd rather have it in better sound. But I don't get that choice.

And that's the way it goes all the way down the line.

I bought the Mobile Fidelity audiophile CD releases of the first two Velvet Underground albums. So I tried to get better fidelity...but that's really a lost cause, those albums defined lo-fi. But they are essential. And I listened to the great Django Reinhardt the other night, recorded in the 1930s. Again, lo-fi, and again essential.

And all these pieces of music matter to me far more than anything that was ever released on Reference Recordings, no matter how realistic it sounded.


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