"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Iain M Churches wrote:
With CD under identical circumstances few - very few, if any - will
reliably tell which is which.

In my experience there is so much post production that goes on at the
mastering stage that often the master tape and the production CD are
wildly different. This may or may not be a good thing. But it doesn't
matter really, as the public have never heard the original and so have
no reference.

Indeed.

The whole objective of disc mastering, was to produce a lacquer which
sounded as close as possible to the original tape. Any fool could make
it sound different.

Indeed again.

CD mastering is quite a simple process. Cutting a lacquer is incredible
difficult.

Yes. However, my point was that if you had a suitable master that could be
cut direct to disk with no changes, and did the same to CD, the disk would
be immediately recognisable as sounding not the same as the master, while
the CD wouldn't.

Your point taken.
But sadly, now that we do have the possibility to clone the original
this is seldom done. That's a pity.

Iain

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