In article , John R Leddy
wrote:

'Jim Lesurf[_2_ Wrote:
;93638']If all CDs were made with sufficient care I suspect I'd be
quite happy with them. Alas in the real world, many don't seem to have
been made that way. Alas, the same can be said for LPs.
And therein lies the crux of the matter. After decades producing poor
quality media the industry wishes us to exonerate their blatant lack of
professionalism. They hope to avoid responsibility for poor equalisation
decisions in the past by claiming the current betterment in fidelity is
due to increased bitdepths and sampling rates in new replay files. A
promise of professional mastering this time around would have been more
than satisfactory, rather than deceiving the public even further.


Agreed. Hence the way HiFiNews keep catching out 'high rez' files on sale
being simply upampled older versions. i.e. more bits, but no improvement in
results or content.

FWIW Although KK tended to refer to PRT as Purveyors of ReTreads I found
their CDs a few decades ago were blessed by employing Mike Dutton to do the
digital transfers, etc, from their old master tapes. As a result their CD
re-issues of the old Pye Barbirolli recordings generally sound much better
than some later 'EMI' re-issues. Fortunately in some cases their 'Pheonixa'
re-re-issues used Mike's work as well. Alas, their Vaughan Williams 60CD
shovel-in-in box was a real guddle of good and poor transfers.

Company run by accountants. Must have been a real frustration for the
engineers, etc, who cared.

Jim

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