I have a few of their recordings.
They are spectacular.
The Bizet and Elgar CD's are supposedly also going to be released as SACD's sometime; I'd rather wait
I have a bunch of the old ones- they were sonically very neutral, not warm, but the better my system has gotten, the better these sound. Are the current ones similar in sonics? Is this still a Keith Johnson? enterprise? I seem to remember that he was behind this, with Spectral gear, etc. I haven't listened to these records in a while; the Three Penny Opera one was great; didn't he do the Nojima Plays Liszt and one other Nojima? I think I might even have some Monk-based stuff, I'm gonna have to dig all these out.
The Bizet and Elgar CD's are supposedly also going to be released as SACD's sometime; I'd rather wait
you mean HDCD which is available now, prof johnson dislikes DSD and nowadays only records in PCM.
I thought you can get RR files at 176/24?
Whcih of course makes no sense unless the vinyl pressing is adding euphonic artifacts...they were recorded digitally at 176.4/24 and transfered to vinyl. i asked jan mancuso about that at the Newport show, suposedly Prof johnson says the vinyl transfer has greater dynamic range (?) and is the format to get...
Whcih of course makes no sense unless the vinyl pressing is adding euphonic artifacts...
they were recorded digitally at 176.4/24 and transfered to vinyl. i asked jan mancuso about that at the Newport show, suposedly Prof johnson says the vinyl transfer has greater dynamic range (?) .
Well. let's see: an LP, which has to go through two more transducer steps to be played on your system than the PCM master from which it is made, or that PCM master itself. Which will sound "better"? If it's the LP, it can only be through added colorations. I think KOJ was misquoted; he was likely referring to comparing the LP to the HDCD CD.
In the same way that conversion to LP increased the dynamic rangeWell we really don't know what goes on at the digital end do we? That article in Stereophile a while back talked about some digital releases undergoing seven conversions. So how close is that?
That aside I wasn't talking about sounding better; I was simply referring to your statement that colorations increased the dynamic range and was wondering how that happened?
In the same way that conversion to LP increased the dynamic range
For that matter, I'm not sure how the LP could have greater dynamic range than even the HDCD unless there are different masterings.
Whcih of course makes no sense unless the vinyl pressing is adding euphonic artifacts...
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