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

From: fdoddy@aol.com
Date: 2008-03-20

In your case Martin, it is exclusively Psycho.

I've heard guys do amazing things with 16/48 that blows away 24/96 or 24/192 and I've heard gobs and gobs of analog that is just music swimming in mud.  Go figure...I'll switch to 24 bit before I go to a higher sampling rate.

Mp3 really is awful though, even the higher bit rates

My flux capacitor needs a new Keeney valve.


fritz


-----Original Message-----
From: tronbros@aol.com
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 6:37 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] SACD or DVD-A

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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