DDD CD Recordings

Boboh1, I think you can find DDD recordings in every CD store. As far as I know, all cd music from 1981 up to now is recorded digitally, so you will find easily lots of DDD cd's. Can anybody tell me if I'm wrong? In my personal case, many times I prefer recordings in ADD or AAD, specially when these ones have been remastered recently. For me these recordings have a more "analog" sound regardless of their bigger background noise.

thankfully, there are still a number of cd's produced from analogue tapes. some musicians require this; e.g., neil young. -kelly

Ditto to the above. DDD just mean all Digital. The first D is for Digital Recorded, 2nd D for Digital Mix, and 3rd D is for the final format on the CD. "A" is analog and includes all pre-digital recording put on CD and some artists who still record using analog equipment. If you see AAD for a CD reissue of a recording that was once on a record, it means the original master was just put directly on a CD. If you see ADD, it means the recording was digitally re-mixed before it was put on the CD. For classical music I really like the AAD or ADD better than DDD. There are some recent 1990s EMI recordings that are ADD.

If you are looking for sources you can start with TowerRecords.com or even Amazon.com --- For rare finds and imports try CDChoice.com I am not sure if you can tell if they are DDD though. There is lots of used stuff on eBay.

So, is ADD a better sounding recording then the all DDD format? My friend let me borrow an old Sting CD that was recorded in Q-Sound DDD and it blew me away with the sound.