Chris Marshall wrote: > On Thursday, Mar 13, 2003, at 22:22 Europe/London, Randy Remote wrote: > > so the remaster was welcome. > > Other titles, like For The Roses are something of an improvement, > > but I had to compare them repeatedly with headphones to notice > > the slightly silkier high end. > > If you have a CD player with the HDCD circuitry (I do not) > > you will probably notice even better sound quality. > > Let me get this straight. HDCD CDs, to be heard at their > best, need HDCD players
yes > but are backward compatible with > ordinary ones. yes they can be played on ordinary CD players, supposedly with some improvement > On top of that, the HDCD releases benefit from being > remastered as well, so even if you don't have an HDCD > capable player, you should still notice an improvement? Not sure I understand the question, but in the case of Joni CD's, the HDCDs WERE the remasters. (the non HDCDs were the original issue. Typically record companies can be pretty slipshod about their masters, sometimes using copies of the master tapes or masters that were optimized for LP) > Do you know precisely what HDCD actually does, as > distinct from the remastering process? Other than it standing for "High Definition Compact Disc" I don't know exactly how the improved definition is achieved. RR
