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In Reply to: RE: Would you repurchase your Redbook (or vinyl) libraries if suddenly they were available posted by tinear on April 21, 2014 at 14:36:51
However I would repurchase some if they were mastered better with a more life-like dynamic range.
As it is I have to scour s/h cd shops to find the first digital releases as they invariably sound a LOT better than later 'remasters'.
The problem comes with stuff that was originally released between '95 and now.
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Do you prefer the original CD reissues (not remasters) of pre '95 music to the original vinyl?I almost always (not always) prefer the vinyl originals to CD or vinyl reissues/remasters. Since around '95 not so much.
That said some of the best sounds I am hearing today come from lossless free live music, boots and demo digital sourced off the internet.
IMO production is far more detrimental to playback "quality" than media or even typical shoddy manufacturing process. But I listen to pop/rock recordings exclusively and when thinking classical music I might have a different opinion.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
Edits: 04/22/14
The original guidelines suggested 0VU = -18dBfs and most of the early cds stick to that more or less.
Since '95 the mastering process has reduced dynamic range to such a degree that -6dBfs seems to be more the norm than the exception these days.
Over-enthusiastic dynamic compression and aggressive limiting do far worse things to overall SQ than less than perfect early convertors could.
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