Phil Leigh;476362 Wrote: > > By the way, I have lots of shm cd's and most of them sound better than > their non-shm equivalents. One thing I have noticed but haven't had time > to drill into yet is that the equivalent FLAC files tend to be somewhat > (5% ish) larger... This implies a difference in the mastering. I don't > believe that the disk coating is having any effect at all (it might on a > conventional CD player, but not when ripping on a rom drive...) I've examined this, as I have some shm myself. Your assumption is right: shm discs use the "best sounding" mastering existing. Sometimes, this mastering is hard (if not impossible) to find on normal CDs. On certain disks, however, where the mastering can be identical to the latest release(for instance: on Supertramp "Even in the quietest moments") the FLAC extracted is identical. So no difference at all. ;)
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