Carl Pulitz:

> Tom, there was a number of sessions issued on Denon LPs and CDs,
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> Rather glassy sounding. Recall somehow that it was a 14bit system.

The Denon CDs almost all produced up to when Denon stopped producing CDs
used pre-emphasis at 50/15 µS time constant giving a treble lift of some +10
dB at 10 kHz.

Almost every device for playing these type of CD´s available today
completely ignores the pre-emphasis flag in the CD data stream so this type
of CD will be reproduced with a 10 dB treble lift and will indeed sound very
hard and glassy.

When reproduced as intended with the appropriate de-emphasis the Denon Disks
sound very good indeed.

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Best regards,

Goran Finnberg
The Mastering Room AB
Goteborg
Sweden

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