Your explanation sounds the best: likely 3 generations

Posted by Sordidman (A) on December 24, 2013 at 10:13:55

In Reply to: RE: Also posted by TGT on December 24, 2013 at 08:58:15:

of tape.....

The recording that leaves the recording studio is the final mix. It sounded one way on the 2 channel mix-down, reel-to-reel deck played through the speaker system in the recording studio. Then it was given to the manufacturing plant and MORE EQ was added, as well as compression, and noise gates and limiters, as well as the level setting. This is applied as the lathe is cutting the lacquers.

So a recording could very well have been improved from the recording studio to the mastering plant: this is just with vinyl.

Then, depending on WHAT "masters" or final mix-down tapes the people who built the DSD files from had, - they could have applied similar limiters, EQ, gates, etc. when the computer constructed the DSD computer files.

Likely, if Mobile Fidelity is using a certain playback system to listen to the new DSD mixes, they MAY decide to "warm it up."

"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"

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Topic - Mobile Fidelity CHICAGO VI SACD …. Disappointment - TGT 18:42:19 12/23/13 (17)

Magnetic Tape Degradation - Cousin Billy 08:09:36 12/25/13 (0)

Still looking for CTA - mcondo 07:34:08 12/25/13 (0)

Mobile Fidelity makes mud: with a few notable exceptions - Sordidman 09:58:06 12/24/13 (3)

Which Simple Minds did MoFi do? - radiodaddy 09:05:11 12/27/13 (2)

I kind of agree, final mix downs - Sordidman 12:06:36 12/29/13 (1)

I still don't see any MFSL releases of Simple Minds - radiodaddy 14:04:53 12/29/13 (0)

There was never - Awe-d-o-file 08:55:10 12/24/13 (2)

Yep... FWIW, - I mostly agree... but..... - Sordidman 10:00:19 12/24/13 (1)

RE: Yep... FWIW, - I mostly agree... but..... - Awe-d-o-file 11:30:38 12/24/13 (0)

RE: Mobile Fidelity CHICAGO VI SACD …. Disappointment - Dr.Phil 19:26:13 12/23/13 (7)

RE: Mobile Fidelity CHICAGO VI SACD …. Disappointment - bean 05:35:27 12/24/13 (6)

RE: Mobile Fidelity CHICAGO VI SACD …. Disappointment - Ozzie 09:13:04 12/24/13 (0)

RE: Mobile Fidelity CHICAGO VI SACD …. Disappointment - Dr.Phil 05:44:54 12/24/13 (4)

"After Midnight" SACD is not MoFi... - radiodaddy 11:39:05 12/28/13 (0)

Also - JMCIII 06:58:01 12/24/13 (2)

RE: Also - TGT 08:58:15 12/24/13 (1)

Your explanation sounds the best: likely 3 generations - Sordidman 10:13:55 12/24/13 (0)

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