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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.

 

kefas
shtinkydog
688 posts
 

any idea where i can find carmen on CD?  i've  had no luck. 

thanks!

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ozzy
7,486 posts
 

Too bad most of the well recorded music is so bland.

ozzy

celtic66
1,664 posts
 

Regarding Carmen Gomes, George Foreman once observed:

"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it."

Perhaps applied to Blues also.  I'm not saying to like her, but perhaps appreciate how effortless her delivery is.

 

 

immatthewj
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I think most of the MFSL SACDs I have bought are really pretty good.

A few monthes ago I bought (I think it is Analogue Productions) Cowboy Junkies/Trinity Sessions SACD and it just about blows me away.

immatthewj
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I also have 4 digital pressings (two of them are SACDs) of Patricia Barber/Cafe Blue, and the three I have listened to (including the red book) sound fantastic.

MFSL’s old red-books of Elton John/Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Moody Blues/On The Thresh Hold Of A Dream sound pretty good to me on my stuff.

And I am not picking these because they are Musty Old Oldies But Goodies/Blasts From My Misguided Past that used to live on my turntable; I have plenty of digital reissues of other albums that meet that criteria that hurt my ears. Nails on chalkboards.

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