magiccarpetride;615451 Wrote: > I have yet to hear a digital recording (high definition or regular red > book) that would sound as close to real life as Nina Simone's "Little > Girl Blue" > (http://www.amazon.com/Little-Girl-Blue-Nina-Simone/dp/B000E97HEE/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1299264276&sr=8-18). > Keep in mind that this album was recorded 54 years ago (1957!) > > So assuming that in the intervening 50 years, before the original > master tape was digitized, there's been a lot of erosion that this > tape, being basically a magnetic medium, tends to suffer from, one can > only wonder how crisp and lifelike that tape actually sounded the day > it was used to capture the god-like playing and singing by the one and > only Ms Nina Simone! > > If you play this CD, and then right after that play the flagship Chesky > Records high definition "Best of Chesky Vocals" (which purports to > showcase the best possible way of capturing vocals), you'll hear how > incredibly inferior Chesky's anal (that's not short for 'analog') high > definition tracks sound. > > What's up with that?
Not Chesky, but quite good recording http://www.linnrecords.com/recording-the-four-seasons.aspx -- michael123 Big 'thank you' to AndyG for fixing #15209, #15693, #16442, #16760 :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ michael123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23745 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86017 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
