In message om, Rob
writes
On 12/02/2012 09:32, Jim Lesurf wrote:


FWIW The sox equalizer and bass settings I mentioned a while ago are my
first guess as to what might tame/improve the poorer EMI CD transfers. But
I've not yet experimented.


Does strike me as bizarre that such apparently cherished recordings
suffer at the point of conversion. I mean, how hard can it be?

Having said this, the Amazon reviews (only two) of your new medley
appear glowing:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mercury-Livi.../dp/B005XBA9Y8

I am wondering, and without wanting to bring on escalation, if the
transfer from analogue to digital is at least part of the reason some
people prefer LPs?

Rob


Nearly all the cd releases of old vinyl recordings that I have heard in
the past 15 years or so have had the so-called 're-mastering' applied.
This normally is little more than an excessive amount of level
compression, though I think that any compression applied to a good
quality original recording is unacceptable. Normalise to -1dbFS by all
means, but why all the compression? Loudness wars surely don't apply to
those who want a CD version of a favourite recording?
It's not the CD transfer that's the issue, it's foolish sound engineers
thinking that they know best.

I often use audacity to check recordings that seem to have compression
issues. The overall amplitude graph of the track concerned will soon
show if there is an issue. Is there not a similar program for those who
persist in using a bizarre platform such as a RISCos machine?
--
Chris Morriss