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Deja Vu all over again

The Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young remastered album is available on Qobuz for streaming at 192kHz 24bit.  It sounds great.  I have the original vinyl that I bought in the late 70s.  This remastered version has a very crisp clean sound with good soundstage depth and width.  I especially like the song, "Almost Cut my Hair". The song seems almost comical to me at the beginning but the mood changes for me as the song continues into a serious and good discussion.
I believe this digital version has little to no compression since I have my preamp volume set at 50 for my normal listening level.  Compare that to some pop albums on Qobuz at 44kHz 16bit that I play at a volume level of 27-33.
I believe the compression level is proportional to the volume level I use for my normal listening level.  For example, ROON shows the dynamic range of each of my CDs that I have ripped as FLAC files into my Library.  I see dynamic range as low as 8 and as high as 18.  The 18 is for a Telarc CD and is exceptional.  I notice my volume level for normal listening level is correlating to this Dynamic Range value.  Of course the higher dynamic range recordings have some nice loud peaks.

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georgehifi
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It’s all about compression, either because of the vintage of the release of the album used when streamed or because it get compressed because of the streaming process itself.
Which ever it is, playing the original retail stamped release CD on a transport or "copied to a hard drive", always sounds the better to me in most cases than anything streamed.


Cheers George
stuartk
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@georgehifi: 


"Stereophiles music reviewer Tom Fine on CSNY "Deja Vu"
The first CD is the original album, sourced from the original tapes. Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering used a light hand at the mastering console and kept the original dynamics and tonal qualities".

I checked out the Discogs site and didn't see any masterings by Bellman of this recording prior to this 50th anniversary release. 
stuartk
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I hope they'll release a CD only version. What does Rhino think guys like me are going to do with two LPs we can't play?  I don't understand the rationale. Is it about collectability?  


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I checked out the Discogs site and didn't see any masterings by Bellman of this recording prior to this 50th anniversary release.
Very strange, Deja Vu was released (vinyl) in March 1970 by Atlantic Records. Yet the 1st CD, didn't as far as I can find come out till 1988 6 years after retail CD started????
Cheers George
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Here’s what one verified purchaser though of the new 50th Anniversary Deja Vu on vinyl.

Holmes
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lifeless mp3 sound on vinyl.
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2021
Verified Purchase
Sound quality (vinyl) compressed and pushed to sound loud. Unlistenable. I have bootlegs that sound better than this cash grab. Returned for refund
And if the vinyl was this dynamically crunched, then it doesn’t hold much for the cd, as they were probably taken off the same new remaster.

Cheers George
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