Audiophile witch hunt or basic common sense?

[froze]

Did anyone ever make a fuss about compact discs being made from analogue masters? Particularly those produced as AAD? Not that I recall. But now we have the anti-vinyl brigade trying to make a big thing out of this.

Actually I remember this stuff, and yes they did, and they still do because most analogue masters done back in the day sound like crap on CD because they try to clean up the sound and ruin it in the process.

 

[ToppingSMSL]

Did anyone ever make a fuss about compact discs being made from analogue masters? Particularly those produced as AAD? Not that I recall. But now we have the anti-vinyl brigade trying to make a big thing out of this.

Why would they? Analogue masters were all there was. There wasn't much anyone could do about that.

 

[davidf]

Why would they? Analogue masters were all there was. There wasn't much anyone could do about that.

Digitally recording music had been around long before CD appeared on the scene.

 

[davidf]

Actually I remember this stuff, and yes they did, and they still do because most analogue masters done back in the day sound like crap on CD because they try to clean up the sound and ruin it in the process.

Nothing really wrong with the masters. Generally, music captured in the analogue era tends to sound better on analogue, as that's was the medium it was originally mastered for. Many of the earlier CDs have better dynamic range compared to newer, compressed masters.

 

[ToppingSMSL]

Digitally recording music had been around long before CD appeared on the scene.

Oh hardly a mainstream thing, don't be so disingenuous.