Many new releases and reissues are sourced from digital masters! So not quite 100% analog!
Done buying new vinyl
Just bought a few albums recommended by a mag. Party by Aldous Harding and Beautiful Jazz by Christian Jacobs. The first has that slight buzzing distortion and dirty noise in one channel for the entire recording. The second has a two small clicks every revolution thru most of a side. The recording quality of the first varies from song to song. From very good to fair. But mostly dull with processing. The second is an AAA recording and is fair at best. Recorded too low and too muffled with flattened soundstage and dynamics. I have hundreds of 60s jazz and blues records that trounce these.
Should I send them back to Amazon?
Should I send them back to Amazon?
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roberjerman Many new releases and reissues are sourced from digital masters! So not quite 100% analog!I'd rather an LP made from an excellent digital master than a poor analog one. And regardless of the quality of the master, if the LP is poorly pressed, or made from low quality vinyl, nothing else matters. Because they aren't for portable use, an LP tends to have higher dynamic range than its equivalent digital counterpart. So again, whether the master was digital or not is not the most important consideration, imo. |
I have thousands of LP's from the 50's & 60's ... mostly jazz and classical. One thing I've noticed is that when tape hiss is present the highs are extended. On newly pressed records, some engineers "de-noise" the reissue to get rid of the tape hiss. Get rid of the tape hiss and the highs are eliminated as well. Therefore the " muffling" of the sound. Typical of this are the Mosaic reissues. I have several where I also have originals to compare them with. No contest ... the original wins in SQ every time. Frank |
This is why guys like Michael Fremer are so valuable---he regularly reports on the sound of new pressings, of albums both new and old. On new pressings of re-issued old albums, he often compares the new pressing to an original, when possible. Of course, he can only get to a limited number of them per month on his website. An ongoing thread here, with reports from consumers specifically on the sound of newly-released LP's, would be great. |
I recently received three new LP purchases, Cecile McLorin Salvant's "Dreams and Daggers", and "For One To Love". Also Bela Fleck's "Flight of the Cosmic Hippo" (among the best recordings of any type I've heard). The Cecile McLorin Salvant recordings are just as good, Dreams and Daggers is particularly excellent for a live club recording. So it's not all bad news, folks. Regards, Dan |
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