Quality Red book CD


I was listening to a Simon and Garfunkel CD , ( circa 1972 ) its one of the best sounding discs I own, including SACD . After 38 years you would think all CDs would sound like this . The fact is you would have trouble finding one CD , SACD that is its sonic equal . Somewhere in the recording , mastering and replicating chain there has been a big step backwards , you would wonder how thats possible when you see a picture of a modern mastering studio . The industry tries to sell us on newer and the promise of better formats , if they put there resources to making better sounding and cheaper red book CDs they might give competition to the downloaders that they say are wrecking the music industry .
tmsorosk

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I do like some of the older, 'non-remastered' CDs myself...what I DON'T like are the exorbitant prices I see for some of the more hyped-up OOP discs still floating around, especially when there's at least a 50% chance you'll be disappointed.

I agree though, that in many cases an over-processed *Remaster* was not needed when the standard issue was fine in the first place. Let's hear it for the Loudness Wars.