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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] SACD or DVD-A

From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
Date: 2008-03-20

Bring back vinyl! My favourite recordings were mostly
classical records recorded by EMI in the 60's haven't
heard anything to compare since and all the advances
in recording technology seem to be steps backwards to
me.

Mark

PS Imagine if the tron had consisted of 35 record
players in parallel, a nightmare.

--- tronbros@aol.com wrote:

> That's interesting. I have just received a copy of
> the remastered Tomita
> 'Snowflakes are Dancing' and it sounds
> extraordinary. But is it because I've
> been told it will? Sometimes John and myself get
> over-sensitised to a
> particular recording, be it pitch, timbre or some
> other effect. You have to walk
> away and return again another day and the problem
> has gone. I like MiniDisc.
> It sounds amazing to me, especially at mitigating
> overly fussy CD sound where
> it seems to balance out the inherent problems I
> hear. I suspect it is
> psycho acoustic effect but I don't care - it works!
> I mistrust mp3 and have
> several decidedly dodgy recordings in this format.
> This may also be psycho
> acoustic but I suspect it actually is a crap
> format.
>
> Best,
>
> Martin
>
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