I share yr view but..... (long)

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In Reply to: Re: You're not alone.. posted by Todd Krieger on March 8, 2006 at 03:20:38:

Hi.
First off, I share your view on analogue recordings on LPs & tapes vs lousy digital recordings made in the early digital eras.
Believe it or not, among my muli hundreds of LPs, I have two LPs, both featured my all-time King of high C: Luciano Pavarotti, one digitially master by DECCA & other analogue only.
The digitally mastered one sounds very very quiet in the background, particularly during breath breaks. But the great singer also sounded very dead in his performance. I found I've missed a lot lot.
The much older analogue recording sounds bit noisy in the background, but the Italian tenor sounded so lifelike & vibrant. I feel I was being there in the concert. A totally different experience vs the digital mastered recording - nite & day.
Mind you, being a vintage radios collector, I am still listening to background music from my favourite 1830s Northern Electric AM radio
when I am working my DIY stuffs behind my workbench. I got tons of cassette tapes I recorded in the past decades & I still play them from time to time.
Sonically, I don't have much luck with CD recordings (16Bit 44.5KHz) except a very few, including several audiophile test CDs pressed on 24-bit masters. Most major labels don't impress me at all, soundwise.
Having said so, the ago of fine digital music has, IMO, arrived finally in the latest DVD-audio format, using the 24bit 96KHz PCM 2 channel technology.
I found them pretty promising vs those lousy low tech 16bit CD recordings. With brandname universal DVD-audio/video players getting popular & affordable in consumer outlets, now we can enjoy really decent audio & video performances pretty affordably & easily as DVD-audio musics are also handily avaiable even on-line.
For me, it is a musical treasure to be explored not soon enough. Now I am getting pretty sort of busy to pick up DVD-videos affordably from musci stores - a really decent audio-video home entertainment.
For the first time, I can understand word by word how the sopranos & tenors sing in the Beethove's Choral Symphony in DVD-video on the TV screen & through my all-tube gears.
c-J

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