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In Reply to: I knew you were probably too far away to come hear my... posted by jsm on March 13, 2007 at 15:02:52:
Better CDs on the Yamaha DVD-S1700 CDs DO NOT sound like CDs, they sound more like SACDs with slightly less resolution. This is something that I believed totally impossible until I heard my first Telarc CD on the Yamaha! To say I am totally shocked is to put it very mildly.I wonder if CDs on the Yamaha are upsampled to DSD? I can't find anything about how CDs are handled in this player in Internet searches, and there are no professional reviews yet? I am curious though why the Yamaha can make CDs listenable when even a $5,000 CD player cannot? Megabuck CD players have more resolution but still sound like CDs. CDs on the Yamaha DVD-S1700 sound nothing whatsoever like CDs. So very, very strange and wonderful!
"Music is love"
Teresa
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Exactly. This is my experience of good redbook CDs. There are many of them.If CDs do not reach the heights of sound quality, and for me they do not, there is an almost infinite wealth of essential music on the CD format. And most of it is not available on any other format.
It is just a matter of time before you discover that Telarc are not the only good CDs. I would mention Harmonia Mundi. The old LPs are fantastic, hard to find and very expensive. The CDs are good sounding, cheap and readily available.
Different CD players do sound different. Different commercial CD recordings vary tremendously in how successful they can be be in sounding musical and appealing. My complaint is that it isn't hard to make a good-sounding CD. Why aren't there a lot more. I make them all the time. To show you how good a CD-R of a vinyl recording can be, now that you appear to have a decent CD player, I'll be happy to make a CD-R for you. I have the entire Franklin Mint 100 greatest recordings. Is there one in particular you think has superb sound and would like to see how fine a CD it can be turned into? Contact me off line if so. Of course, I will be using a differet TT and cartridge and a different example of the record, so it won't sound exactly like your record, but in some absolute sense I think you will conclude it has very fine sound extremely close to that of a vinyl recording.Joe
Hi Joe,I sold my copy of Franklin Mint’s 100 Greatest Recordings of all time, too much mono and too many recordings of compositions I didn’t care for. Also this helped me clean out an entire rack for CDs, SACDs and DVD-Audios, I now have room of 208 combined of all three formats so I must choose wisely and carefully.
I have in the past not been successful recording LPs to CD-Rs or to 48kHz DAT. I might consider recording them to 96kHz as an experiment. But I now firmly believe the best results are obtained by listening to the original recording. Records when treated with Gluv-Glide should easily last until after I’m dead, so I no longer see the point. Also I believe that Analog recordings should be listened to in the Analog realm. So since I can play any format except 8 Track I see no reason to record anything except my guitar and voice.
And I know some people record LPs to CDs to listen in the car. I listen to Cassettes in my car, as I don’t like CD in the car especially on the roads in Reno. I have an excellent collection of 125 cassettes so I have got the car listening covered. My Kenwood car deck has Dolby B and 70ms (metal) EQ as well as a frequency response of 10-20kHz and sounds superb.
Thanks for the kind offer though!
"Music is love"
Teresa
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