Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!tynor From: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Abbey Road on CD Message-ID: <497@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 11:52:00 EDT Article-I.D.: gitpyr.497 Posted: Thu Jun 27 11:52:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 03:24:25 EDT References: <4470@allegra.UUCP> Reply-To: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor) Distribution: net.audio Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 45 Summary: In article <4470@allegra.UUCP> jpl@allegra.UUCP (John P. Linderman) writes: >I happened across my first Beatle's album on CD this week, >an EMI release of Abbey Road, obviously a Japanese production >since the jacket and lyrics were reproduced in Japanese as >well as English. In spite of the breathtaking price of >$29.95 [for a single CD], I decided to give it a try, to see >how good a ``digitally mastered'' Beatle's album might sound. >In a word, it sounded noisy, and the obnoxious hiss that came >through on every song left no doubt in my mind that the master >was most assuredly NOT digital. In fact, if my deck sounded >that noisy, I'd clean the heads. The $30 charge is quite >obviously pitched at the nostalgia market, not the audiophile >market..... Don't forget, Abbey Road was released in 1969, and was recorded on a standard analog machine. Of course the master was not digital! Likely, it was *re*mastered when digitized, thus the term 'digitally remastered'. It's very difficult to remove tape hiss from an analog signal. If you try to filter it, you end up filtering out music too. Try to live with it. Also keep in mind that there are other qualities of a recording that make it 'audiophile quaility'. Things like distortion, dynamic range, mike-placement... A hiss-free recording is not necessarily 'audiophile quality' and vice versa. Don't forget the old saying, "Surveillence should preclude saltation." (roughly translated as "Look before you leap") =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Eschew Obfuscation. Steve Tynor Georgia Instutute of Technology ...{akgua, allegra, amd, harpo, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax, ut-sally} !gatech!gitpyr!tynor -- Steve Tynor Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!tynor