On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:09:44 +0200, "Iain Churches"
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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Naxos is reportedly moving away from SACD and
concentrating on plain old vanilla CDs.

Sounds like a good idea.

Is this typical of the industry?

Word has it that DVD-A is dying and only Sony's deep pockets are keeping
SACD afloat. Remember beta?

I remember at the time that many people in broadcast and duplicating
thought that Beta was superior. In fact there were some companies
using Beta for local ENG.

How are the masters normally recorded
these days in the classical music world - 96/24 or what?

Probably. But, so what?

Yes. 96/24, probably without exception. To allow what
Tony Griffiths describes as "professional headroom" :-))

I cite the classical market as being 'quality sound' so
it would be interesting to know where all this is going
in the short term (and indeed the medium/long term).

I am glad that you regard the classical market as quality,
Andy. When I go to a classical mastering session, I can
reckon to be in and out in a couple of hours. For a pop
session one needs to take a sleeping bag:-)

Perhaps because you simply have to *record* a classical orchestra?
With pop, you have to transform what they do into something vaguely
reminiscent of music - noise gates, compresors, limiters, pitch
shifters, multiple track/take splicing etc etc etc. :-(
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

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