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From: ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
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Subject: Re: Re: ... (actually CD vs LP)
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 02:43:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 10 02:43:47 1985
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>>Comparing my Oracle Delphi and my Yamaha CD to live music indicates to my
>>ears that a high quality LP (well recorded and mastered) sounds more
>>realistic than CD. In fact, you can tell in an instant. I have Telarc LPs
>>and CD as well as from ANGEL etc. I have tried to listen to both pure
>>digital recordings and digitally remastered analogue recordings. In each case
>>the LP came out on top.
>
>This is an interesting comment, since all the Telarc recordings (at
>least in the last several years) are digitally recorded.  This implies
>that somehow putting digital information onto an LP in the recording
>studio and then playing the LP gives a more listenable result than
>playing that SAME digital information directly.  As a friend of mine
>likes to say, "What's wrong with this picture?"

What is wrong with this picture?  Probably the misconception that
playing a Telarc CD is the same as playing the digital recording.
Most Telarc digital recordings are made on the Soundstream digital
recorder, a machine with a substantially higher sampling rate than
the compact disc standard.  Before the CD can be mastered, the
original Soundstream digital recording has to go through a conversion
process to change to the 44.1k sampling rate, then it is re-recorded
on a Sony PCM 1610 (A reputedly inferior digital machine, but the only
one compatible with CDs).  The analog records are mastered directly from
the Soundstream recording.

                  Ben Broder
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