darrenyeats;377959 Wrote: > My opinion is that talk of consumer formats (high rate MP3 vs red book > vs SACD vs hi-rez PCM) is rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic. The > real story is the Loudness War and the dumbing down of production > values. > > Almost every "remaster" I've come across sounds worse than the original > and is horribly compressed. Things are getting worse not better. > > With a lot of older stuff you need to research and figure out which > masters are the good ones. With most new stuff you're stuck with bad > production. I'm not one to buy music because it's well recorded - I buy > music for the music - which makes the problem only more frustrating. > Darren Quoted for truth. Remasters typically sound terrible. I sometimes trawl second-hand CD stores to buy earlier releases of older albums instead of the remasters that are ubiquous at the music stores.
(I also hate the mediocre bonus tracks that are tacked onto classic albums, but that's another issue and easily solved by just not ripping those tracks. Even when I'm a huge fan of the band/artist, I don't want B-sides, demos and live tracks to ruin the experience of a great album.) -- Kvaks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kvaks's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21610 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57422 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
