[mb-users] Digitally (re-)master AR attribute

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2006/10/3, Schika <schika at gmail.com>:
>
> On 10/3/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I understant what you are saying, but then all those "digitally
> remastered"
> > mentions are just commercial mentions of the obvious?
> >
> > What changed in the "digitally remastered" re-issues that explains the
> > differences some listeners find, if the original release was already
> > digitally mastered? Only the improvement in the quality of the mastering
> > equipment?
> >
> Well, 16 Bit is still 16Bit digitall or Audio-CD's nowadays able to
> contain 24Bit / 36Bit / 48Bit audio data?
>
> I've got the 3 disc "Deluxe Edition" of "The Orb's Adventures Beyond
> The Ultraworld" [1] marked "Digitally Remastered" and whatnot ... and
> I have to say that the sound of my vinyls from 1991 [2] is still
> unbeatable.
>
> From my point of view, we can't talk about an "improvement" at all. :P
>
>
> [1] http://www.discogs.com/release/730292
> [2] http://www.discogs.com/release/55685


I wasn't referring to the respective merits of vinyl / CD : this is an old
debate which I have seen / participated to too often. My mother used to say
that 78 rpm had a better sound than LPs and that using electricity had
removed something of the musical message. Does this sound familiar ;-) Of
course, she is saying just the same about vinyl / CD now. I think that the
truth is more complex than that, each medium has it's own merits. SACD is
better, but industry was unable to produce SACDs in 1980.

Back to track: I was referring to two releases medium, usually of some
material previously issued on vinyl. I have heard people say (although this
wax not always true) that the second release, marked "digitally remastered",
had a better sound than the first. I don't have such a cd in two versions. I
have a few digitally remastered ones, and a lot of "originally" transfered
ones, but I never bought both. So that I can't say if I can hear a
difference. Or if (which i suspect) "digitally remastered" cds are sometimes
actually digitally remixed.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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