A few things to mention, 80's -90's digital masters are more often than not whats "dodgy", not vintage analog masters with regards to SACD/DVDA releases. Only hi rez digitally recorded music recorded after mid 90's is worthy of SACD/DVDA whereas even very old analog masters can generate wonderful SACD/DVDA.
Secondly the vinyl music universe isnt really about new releases, its mostly about legacy music and hearing those with best possible presentation which is commonly the original LP on good gear. Lastly, although SACD/DVDA are wonderful improvements over CD, there is a less than a miniscule number of good titles compared to LP, and they are both nearly exinct formats at this point. The sad part is CD's high resolution digital successors came along at the exact same time (~2000) as free mp3s which have essentially killed them off as free mediocre is much more popular than expensive superb. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:hifis...@gate.net) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Peter Loveday Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:44 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital > 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.
