Well mastered Compact Disks


CD's  are coming back. And rightly so. If one has a good dedicated red book CD player then the SQ is still better than any streaming, if the CD has been mastered well.

These Carmen Gomes Inc. albums are exemplary. Dynamic range is left unhindered and to my ears they sound just about as good as the DXD versions.

Please feel free to suggests more examples of well mastered compact Discs.

 

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For the Bill Evans, I recommend the "At The Village Vanguard [Keepnews Collection]"

Just reading through the March edition of Hifi-news & Record Magazine.

There is a review of the Moonriver Audio Model 404 Reference Integrated Amplifier

The reviewer is using the 

for the review;

SUBTLETY WINS OUT
Play Carmen Gomes, Inc.’s latest
album, Ray! [Sound Liaison SL1052A;
DXD], and the sheer intimacy of
Gomes’s voice, accompanied by no
more than guitar, bass and drums
– or indeed just bass on ‘The Sun Is
Gonna Shine Again’ – makes for a
compelling listen, the amp working
with source and speakers to give a
real ‘artists in the room’ effect.
There’s no overt ‘hi-fi ness’ here,
but instead an honest, rich and
enveloping sound....https://www.hifinews.com/content/moonriver-audio-model-404-reference-integrated-amplifier-page-2

Pretty much anything by FIM, Opus 3, 3 Blind Mice, Telarc and XRCD.  There are others.

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