Grahame;401695 Wrote: > In the third comment, there is a link to where they explain the the > equipment used. > > http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/explanation.htm > > Does this re-qualify them in your eyes?
Nope. I don't know all of the recordings listed, but the two Murray Perahia ones and Dark Side of the Moon and Gaucho are ancient, and were certainly mastered on analogue tape - the amazon review here even mentions the tape hiss: http://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Piano-Concertos-Perahia-English/dp/B00000K4IH I have the Pink Floyd dual-layer SACD - it does a magnificent job of transducing the tape-hiss, wow, flutter, pre-echo, post-echo and drop-outs from what's left of the original multi-track master. All you have to do is download some music in hi-res and red-book resolution from Gimell or Linn, or buy a CD/SACD from www.lsolive.com for example, and listen to contemporary, high-quality recordings (rather than 30 year old tape-hiss) at different quality levels and decide for yourself. BTW, I have no particular axe to grind for SACD, it just happens to have been the only available hi-res format until recently, but my experience of listening to such recordings has certainly made me enthusiastic at the prospect of more generally available, and easier to replay, alternative hi-res formats, such as the downloads I've suggested. I do mostly listen to classical music; perhaps the difference is more obvious with such material, perhaps the people that produce it care more for absolute quality. Until you listen, you won't know. -- JezA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JezA's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21219 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60665 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
