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?
The CD of that recording can aparently capture that too :) soo even 16/44.1 is tranparent enough or do you have the original tape. But we can not argue taste they did a good recording session that day 57 years ago thats all that matters. The dominat factor in this case is Nina Simone. And a CD of it apearently blows awy mr chesky efforts in your opinoin. I have not heard either of them, but you migth not get what i mean anyway , chesky's choices regarding thier production and mastering may not suit your taste or mine, I don't know ( I wont get a showcase audiophile recording, you just made another case against that ). Also it is this kind of "simple" production that can still sound good even today. I'll try, you can see that there is 2 kinds of qualities here. You can record a completely horrifiyng mess flawlessly on hirez. You can then listen to this in technically perfect quality it will sound just as horrible as it was recorded and produced nothing added or removed at all. There is no "technical artifacts" from the recording device in such a recording or limitations from the media, the bad choices of the producers or musician will be almost to apareant. Before any studio people flame me, you can of course have perfectly recorded technical mistakes from the rest of the process, my piont is that the recording" thing" does not add it's own flawor on top. And then there is the musical qualities and the artistic values and the artwork of recording , this is a matter of taste and preference where there is no rigth and wrong. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 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
