"Will Reeve" wrote in
:

I spent some Christmas HMV vouchers and picked up The War of the Worlds
on CD for £11.99, CD96000 which I think is a UK only release. I was
absolutely gobsmacked to listen to it (my system is budget, a Trichord
modified PD703 transport, dpa Little Bit Three DAC and a Creek OBHIIse
driving Sennheiser HD600 'phones). It is quite possibly the clearest and
best recorded CD I've listen to, the individual instruments are clear
and separate well, considering it was recorded in 1978 and probably
mastered in the mid '80's. The CDs are (C) 1978 the cover art 1985.

The question is why do a lot of the modern CDs sound so bad from a sound
quality side, a lot of the CD's have PC CD-ROM sections is this causing
the quality issues or is it just sloppy mastering?


Some of the "budget" labels in the UK made records EQd to sound terrific
on the most common (cheapest) record player of the day. The result was
that the budget LPs sounded better than the high priced LPs when played on
that gear. Of course the wealthy with their high end stereos shunned the
terrible sounding recordings but they were a minority and could well
afford the extra expense of high end recordings.

I suspect that the same was done with the CD in question.

r


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