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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Re: Turntable Hype posted by Phil Sieg on September 11, 1999 at 09:14:53:
Yes, I do realize that the Telarc's have digital masters.It is not that easy to be sure that any differences you perceive between the LPs and the CD versions are due to the digital medium, per se. For one thing, it is not that easy to be sure that you have the same recording. For example, the Telarc Drum recording was done Direct to Disc for LP, but the CD is made from an analog back up tape. As well, it could be that the mix was not done properly for the CD reissue.
In those cases where you have found the CD version to be inferior, how do you determine that it is the digital medium itself that is at fault, rather than something else?
Well, I have no 'original' red cover Mercury LPs, save for one of some of Haydn's Sun Quartets. That one is used, and is not in very good shape; plus, I do not have that one on CD. I do have some later Mercury pressings, Golden Imports, but I understand they were not the same as the original issues.
I have some of the old RCA recordings on CD, but I believe the CD version is superior in some ways. The pressings I have are noisier, for one thing. If I wish to listen to Reiner's recording of Rachmaninoff's "Isle of the Dead," I will go to the CD every time.
Again, I have Ernest Ansermet's recording of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" on a London LP, and also on CD, which is superior.
I have never attempted to duplicate my LP collection on CD, except for a few favorite recordings. If the LP is good enough, why should I change it? If it is not, why not get some other version on CD?
On average, my CDs sound superior to my LPs. That's the long and short of it. Some of the very best recordings I have ever heard are on CD, so I have to conclude that the medium is capable of storing very fine recordings.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Turntable Hype - Pat D 18:18:52 09/11/99 (11)
- Re: Turntable Hype - Phil Sieg 08:18:38 09/12/99 (10)
- Re: Turntable Hype - Dan Bonhomme 07:15:08 09/13/99 (9)
- Re: Turntable Hype - Pat D 16:52:21 09/13/99 (8)
- Re: Turntable Hype - Dan Bonhomme 09:24:18 09/14/99 (1)
- Re: Turntable Hype - Pat D 15:24:18 09/14/99 (0)
- Re: Turntable Hype - Phil Sieg 07:22:56 09/14/99 (5)
- Re: Turntable Hype,hic - R B 01:56:10 09/15/99 (0)
- Re: Turntable Hype - Pat D 16:05:13 09/14/99 (3)
- Have it your way... - Phil Sieg 18:37:08 09/14/99 (2)
- Re: Have it your way... - Rob 04:11:47 09/15/99 (1)
- Well, we need a qualified diagnostician... - Phil Sieg 06:20:37 09/15/99 (0)
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