[BC] They can't give 'em away!

[Tom]

No, you want the MASTER, NOT the CUTTING master - the two-track tape 
made directly by mixing down the tracks to final form.  That's an 
intermediate step not always taken, but the TRUE MASTER, the FLAT 
recording, is the one you want for CD mastering... and the one that when 
you hear it A/B with the resulting CD, makes you go... HUH?!??!?!

CDs do NOT sound better than half-track stereo, even at 7.5 IPS, let 
alone at 15 or 30.

Can't.  Top End is still about 20 kHz for a CD; reels can - and do - top 
out closer to 30 kHz... and the low end is similarly constrained.

Try breaking the windows with a CD of the 1812 Overture.

Now try it with a reel of the same performance.

Can you say "Cracked Plaster"?

<grin>


Rich Wood wrote:
> ------ At 01:47 PM 9/21/2008, WBRadiolists at aol.com wrote: -------
>
>> I think that's the biggest difference between the sound of a CD 
>> compared to
>> an LP. The only *fair* test would be to get a CD that was made from 
>> the same
>> master tapes as an LP, and compare those.
>
> Actually, that's the last thing you want to do. A cutting master for 
> vinyl is equalized specifically for vinyl and sounds really bad when 
> used to cut a CD. That was the problem with early CDs. The CD doesn't 
> need the audio manipulation that's required for vinyl to keep 
> distortion down and to prevent clobbering adjacent grooves.
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