GuyDebord;271412 Wrote: > I dare anyone to listen to the audiophile digital remaster of miles > davis a kind of blue > ... snip ... > Even any non-audiophile listener will tell you that the cd has less > dynamics and more noise. I don't have Kind of Blue on LP, but I do have the Columbia/Legacy CD remaster, so I can comment on it. It's obviously been edited on a digital workstation, but there's a brief snippet (0.1 sec) of what appears to be unfaded noise at the beginning of "So What", preceded by about 0.15 sec of digital dither, which is preceded by digital silence. According to Cool Edit, that noise is around -55 dBFS (RMS), hardly anywhere near the -86 dBFS (RMS) of the digital dither alone. As I said in the previous post, the problem is not the CD, the noise came from the source tape used to master the CD. Of course they CD will sound "noisy"; the noise from the analog source has been digitized and RECORDED on the CD, the CD's inherent noise floor is WAY lower, around 30 dB lower!
-55 dBFS is consistent with what I have seen from good recordings of that era. I don't know for sure but likely with a pre-111 tape formulation and WAY before Dolby or other noise reduction was available. -- Timothy Stockman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy Stockman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8867 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43045 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
