ralphpnj wrote: > Have you forgotten (or maybe you are just too young to remember) how in > the 1980's many of the newly issued CDs of material originally recorded > in analog and first issued on vinyl were being questioned by audiophiles > because: > > 1) the vinyl master was used for the CD with the RIAA equalization > unchanged. > > 2) high generation copies of master tapes were used instead of the > original masters. > > There were a few other reasons which I can't recall at the moment but > what I'm trying to say is that the audiophile community always finds > something to complain about.
Interesting point as my first thought on reading about getting pre-1990s CDs was "but wasn't this the era that everyone hated the CD because of the reasons you note above with some of the early CD releases." This is certainly my recollection of the early days of the CD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98249 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
