I've never had an SACD, but it seems like technology is changing so fast it's hard to keep up without pouring $$$ down the drain, especially if the content is not there. We buy and spend like we live forever, and both the stuff and us will last, but it doesn't.
So here's a question. Why when CD's first came out did almost every single one have a disclaimer that it might 'show up the faults of the original recording', when in reality it probably was not as good as the original... merely on the noise level? And one other ponderance. Can a digital recording, regardless of the medium one is listening to, be as good as the analog recording? Several more... and a digital recording pressed to a vinyl record, can it be little more than a digital recording... and then of course an analog recording (as in LP), is no more than an inferior copy of the analog source. Tom On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Peter Loveday <pe...@loveday.org> wrote: >> The same factors apply to CDs. >> >> Audiophile CDs have much better sound quality than the ones you find in >> the discount bin at WalMart; especially some of the early CD issues of 60s & >> 70s LPs that were digitized straight from the old LP "master" tapes without >> any kind of re-mixing, re-mastering ... that's why there are re-issues (one >> reason anyway). > > Indeed. There is a lot of quality variation in all formats. > > But its not like CDs are representative of state-of-the-art digital music > formats anyway,nor have been for a long time. Even in consumer equipment, > it's been, what, 10 years since SACD/DVDA came on the scene? > > These suffer from exactly what you talk about though, too many are merely > upconversions of CD recordings, themselves often digitized from dodgey > analogue masters. > > But a well mastered SACD/DVDA is pretty damn impressive. Just a shame > there's not more stuff being released on them, though its still probably > more than the amount of new stuff released on vinyl :( > > - Peter > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
