Or what they have *not* done, meaning they just transferred the Lp pressing master directly to digital with no thought to the fact that the master was created to override the sonic limitations of the Lp medium.
A blatant example of this is the RCA Victor 1967 cast recording of By Jupiter. The Lp sounds decent enough, but the CD and .mp3 versions sound horrendous.
DrG
On Jun 2, 2013, at 5:22 PM, John Haley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I run into CD reissues all the time that do not sound as good as the LP's.
> This has nothing to with the medium; it's the taste factor of whoever is
> doing the remastering and/or producing, and what they have done *to* the
> sound of something.
> Best,
> John Haley
>
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