You could also add the fact that some analog tapes did not age well . The digital copy from 1989 may be as good as it ever gets.
Also some early CDs was simply cut from the LP master tape . A good engineer knows that an LP is not transparent and have some well known issues to workaround so they tweaked it to get a good LP experience. The tonal balance etc may sound a bit wrong directly on a transparent media as a CD how about a tad flat and thin :) These two can ofcourse be combined so that the only viable source for the remaster is the CD then you may fix some stuff but your limited . Best case they went back to well preserved multitrack sources and redid the whole mixing process from scratch , thats better if we get that treat on in a while. But even then the intrinsic sq off every track is still limited but you can use a modern DAW software and have no further detoriation from there . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108499
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