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In Reply to: Why are Japan "First Pressing" CDs considered the best sounding? posted by LoWang on April 13, 2007 at 18:03:15:
compare the columbia, epic, warner early pay pressings to the later us pressed CDs, and you'll find that generally the japs pressings are "diluted".the original mastertapes stayed back in the us while only dupe copies were sent to the plants in japan.
when you listen to columbia and epic cds in particluar, you'll also notice a slow down in "tempo". listen to same recordings on LPs, and you'll notice the same slow down in "tempo" too. listen to SACDs and you'll notice the bloody same issue too. except that jap SACDs have additional "HoT" flavour due to chemical make-up of the discs.
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Follow Ups
- not really. a lot of early jap pressings are made from duplicates of mastertapes - jeromelang 20:38:32 04/15/07 (2)
- EVERYTHING is made from copies of "mastertapes". nt - clarkjohnsen 09:09:03 04/16/07 (0)
- Re: not really. a lot of early jap pressings are made from duplicates of mastertapes - ishmael 08:15:12 04/16/07 (0)
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