sound quality from CD to CD

Some CDs are indeed produced badly. Bad production can happen in the studio, when dynamic range is erased to produce a “hot” recording... and it can happen at the mastering plant, when the digital nasties creep in.

I have just been getting to know Dolly Parton’s The Grass is Blue; what a superb performance, and from every musician in the band as well. Not a dud riff. But the extreme top end is steely and Miss Parton’s voice has a zing on the high notes and even a bit of edge lower down sometimes. I can live with it for the feeling and the mastery in the voice and instruments—such performances don’t come along every day—but gee whiz Ma’am, I bet the master didn’t leave the studio like that.

Now you can tell the performance is great even on an ordinary player. On my best setup, there is more emotion and the songs touch me more easily. But there is not one of my players that can take away the digital artifacts that were put there somewhere in the process of getting the disc to me, and I suspect the pressing plant.

hi kendavid:

the 20 bit original lector is a bit more forgiving of "harsh" sounding recordings. i would surmise that you are auditioning a 24 bit lector which is more reolving and hence less euphonic.

you may decide to change your interconnect cable from the preamp to the cd player after the lector breaks in.

Change it to what

This is just a personal opinion but don't use silver.

cable preference is subjective. i am using maple audio whisper.