In Reply to: Re: If you don't hear... posted by Phil Sieg on September 12, 1999 at 15:16:06:
Today I listened to some Telefunken LPs: Directly Metal Mastered and digitally recorded in the 80-ies and I couldn't get excited by them because they missed that analogue sound I recently discovered. I really like Teldec and Denon CDs, because they sound more analogue than other brands but for LPs I agree they should be analogue to show the enormous dynamics and development of single notes to a more convincing and therefore musical picture a CD still can't convey. Though the sound-quality of e.g. Shirley Horn's CD 'You won't forget about me' is quite remarkable, I still think I'll go nuts if it would have been recorded on analogue equipment and released on vinyl. You make me very curious about the Vegh-recordings, because on CD it's good and I love the performances but there just isn't a sense of a live-experience due to the bad mid-eighties remaster. I can imagine the LPs sound better doing more justice to the great performances, giving them more air and soundstaging.I really started to doubt the quality of my cdp, but after those Telefunken LPs I'm convinced I still have got a good one, since I prefer CDs over digitally recorded LPs. This weekend was some sort of catharsis, as well in a musical as in an 'audiophile' sense as far as I consider myself to be an audiophile.
Rob
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