In Reply to: Maybe it's better mastering, but there's certainly more "there" there when comparing EMI's "historic" CD with posted by jdaniel@jps.net on July 9, 2017 at 07:49:38:
But I contend that we'd like Pristine's "activist" remasterings whether or not they're issued in 24/96. And perhaps 24/96 does give the engineers more "headroom" when they're in the process of remastering the historic recordings. Nevertheless, I still think that 24/96 is overkill when the extremes of dynamics and frequencies of the historic sources themselves lie comfortably within the confines of CD-quality sound. It's not a big deal of course, since most listeners today have the ability to play music in 24/96. And of course, I'd say the same thing if the reissues were done in DSD - it's just overkill. But perhaps it allows the companies to eke out a few more dollars on each of our purchases and thereby stay in business! ;-)
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- I don't necessarily disagree - Chris from Lafayette 09:43:25 07/09/17 (5)
- RE: I don't necessarily disagree - PAR 14:59:26 07/09/17 (4)
- They have the ability, they just don't know it. :-) /n - Ivan303 20:00:30 07/10/17 (1)
- On what ? - Ross 18:21:52 07/11/17 (0)
- As I've posted before. . . - Chris from Lafayette 01:03:40 07/10/17 (0)
- RE: I don't necessarily disagree - Travis 18:21:17 07/09/17 (0)