Can't say I've noticed any CD's not sounding right, whether recent or going back to the eighties. Mind you, my newest player is getting on for twenty years old.
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Can't say I've noticed any CD's not sounding right, whether recent or going back to the eighties. Mind you, my newest player is getting on for twenty years old.
denon were biggest users of pre emphisis, and kept using it into 90's i believe. think as macca says, it was oft a japanese thing. and yes some early machines had a light on them
Here's the EQ curve - it is 10dB but only at 20Khz:
https://i.ibb.co/yFpn094/PRE-EM.jpg
I'd expect this to sound like you'd turned up the treble control on the amp. Not 'correct' but not a disaster either, might sound 'too bright' to some people on some systems.
fair enough; the 10db stuck in my mind.. yup its a little bright, but orchestrations sound worst.
It will change the sound from what was intended, no doubt about that. Trying to think if I do have any CDs from the 1980s that sound a bit thin and toppy, I might have a couple.
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...ok-de-emphasis
some info here including a ripper that compensates for it..
CD2WAV32 developed by M. Yanagisawa from Japan.
Unless they are marked, how would you know which CD's need correction applied?
I can always use the tone controls :).