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Re: Why early digital sounded so bad

The 'analog master' equalization canard you post is exactly what would be expected of the shills pushing 'perfect sound forever' at the time to excuse the execrable quality of early digital offerings. To my ears, digitally mastered LPs suffer virtually all of the same faults of the CD versions minus the requantization from 48ks/s to 44.1 (where applicable) with the LP's limitations laid on top of it all.

Not *all* early digital recordings sounded 'bad'. Just nearly all of them. I recall Soundstream mastered and Telarc putting out some ok sounding stuff. Still a real disappointment compared to good analog, though.

My impression of CD player quality is that just about all of them were garbage up until sometime in the '90's. Now a minority of them are not garbage.

Redbook as a standard is insufficiently robust in word length and sampling rate as a high end medium. It has gone from being nearly impossible to get to sound ok to being difficult to get to sound ok. Forget accurate.

Overall, a bad scene.


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