You should give Doug Mcloed / You Can't take my Blues ( a few others) a
spin on Jvc xrcd the sound is simply stunning Through my Tag McLaren
power Amps Bw Speakers Amazing just shows what the cd format is
capable of given a little effort. Sounds a lot better to me than the so
called super audio
Gomez;288110 Wrote:
You should give Doug Mcloed / You Can't take my Blues ( a few others) a
spin on Jvc xrcd the sound is simply stunning Through my Tag McLaren
power Amps Bw Speakers Amazing just shows what the cd format is
capable of given a little effort. Sounds a lot better to me than
Interesting, I hadn't realized that Doug Mcleods discs were also
available on XRCD. Those would be some that could be used for
comparisons, as they are also available (or at least were available) in
both standard and HDCD releases as well. In fact there was a small
release of 2 disc sets, one
PhilNYC;288111 Wrote:
I agree. Also, Doug McLeod's Come to Find is excellent. Others I
highly recommend (purely based on sound quality improvements over
original CD releases) are:
Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collosus
Sonny
Wombat wrote:
In the end it only was 16bit at the time it was recorded. So JVC most
likely did record it to tape and back with some magic and gave it a
different sound.
You mean loss of high frequency content and compression that is
unavoidable with any tape machine? Even a 2 machine running
You mean loss of high frequency content and compression that is
unavoidable with any tape machine? Even a 2 machine running at 30IPS?
Most likely. At least the Yim-Hok Man i tried does suffer this way. As
said before i don´t know the Brothers In Arms XRCD and only read some
impressions.
Did you ever listen to an XRCD? They are mastered completely different
than the original relreases.
This less jitter and better bit truncating thing is most likely only
marketing hype subscriping a special way of resampling and dither.
This Seven Days mentioned above for example is pretty
Sounds to me like they have ben engineered to sound better but not
actually as accurate
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A little more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Resolution_Compact_Disc
There does sound like a lot of marketing in there, and a confusing use
of jitter in a couple of places. But i think it basically boils down
to them taking a lot more care in how the material is recorded in
funkstar wrote:
A little more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Resolution_Compact_Disc
There does sound like a lot of marketing in there, and a confusing use
of jitter in a couple of places. But i think it basically boils down
to them taking a lot more care in how the
I say skip the mains cable and only buy gold discs. Not sure what it is
but that gold sure sounds good.
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Skunk
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XRCD stands for 'extended resolution cd'...Not sure how much is
marketing hype, but just recieved my special order import of Chinese
artist Dadawa's 'Seven Days'.
and I can assert the sound IS outstanding
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mmg_fan
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