Mnyb;615342 Wrote: > So i do have to gently disagree here, the analog origin is a bottleneck > even to a CD much more soo to a so called hirez recording. >
I have yet to hear a digital recording (high definition or regular red book) that would sound as close to real life as Nina Simone's "Little Girl Blue" (http://www.amazon.com/Little-Girl-Blue-Nina-Simone/dp/B000E97HEE/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1299264276&sr=8-18). Keep in mind that this album was recorded 54 years ago (1957!) So assuming that in the intervening 50 years, before the original master tape was digitized, there's been a lot of erosion that this tape, being basically a magnetic medium, tends to suffer from, one can only wonder how crisp and lifelike that tape actually sounded the day it was used to capture the god-like playing and singing by the one and only Ms Nina Simone! If you play this CD, and then right after that play the flagship Chesky Records high definition "Best of Chesky Vocals" (which purports to showcase the best possible way of capturing vocals), you'll hear how incredibly inferior Chesky's anal (that's not short for 'analog') high definition tracks sound. What's up with that? -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86017 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
