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Captain Crunch decoder ring for findind audiophile quality CD recordings

I have recently added the beautiful sounding Primaluna Prologue Eight CD player to my system.  I now want to add CDs to my collection that can take advantage of this new world of high quality CD playback the Primaluna provides. The Primaluna highlights any shortcomings in the CD recording process so i need to be able to identify well recorded material. So heres the question, what is the Captain Crunch Decoder Ring when reading a CD "liner material information" that will identify a high quality recording?

ezstreams
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1graber2
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@dldennisthx
for adding the link for loudness wars, I forgot to.

also, I didn’t know there was a Loudness Wars rating system for Digi recordings (24/...) as well. Interesting. 

I have the Audio Tools App, wonder if I can determine my own distortion levels from recordings with this App.
will check the Loudness Wars website since they have directions ...
ezstreams OP
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Dldennis, thank you for the intoduction and insight into Loudness Wars, it has opened up a whole aspect of researching quality music recordings for me!  Being an engineer, Loudness Wars data driven metrics is speaking my language. As Alan Mulally used to tell us when he was running Boeing's Commercial Airplane Division "the data will set you free."

daverz
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Just about anything on Lyrita (but not the newer "BBC Recordings" that were from broadcasts).  Most were recorded by the great audio engineer Kenneth Wilkinson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Wilkinson
jaybe
813 posts
 
Steve Hoffman forums have a lot of info on best recordings/versions of many CDs.
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