Originally Posted by
Rush2112
Well this is a tough one ! Certainly I have many remastered CD reissues that totally wipe the floor with the original CD releases, the reissues are by far closer in tonality to the vinyl pressing particularly when the original recording is analogue, I think its more about how much care and attention was taken in digital mastering originally. Unfortunately, many early digital recordings were very poor by comparison to the "sota" analogue recordings of the same period, which means that no amount of remastering is going to help. Of course there are some examples of great early digital recordings, take a listen to Donald Fagen''s The Nightfly this album has not to my knowledge been remastered and reissued which is perhaps testament to the care and attention given to the original recording and production. Certainly where ADC was treated with respect and care in the early days the results were pretty good but many remastered reissues of analogue recordings have benefited from greatly improved ADC in the same way we have all benefited from better DAC in players and seperate DAC's. However, the old addage applies " Garbage in, garbage out ' if the recording is poor the best remastering in the world can't create what isn't there, so the best you can hope for is some sympathetic tonal correction and noise reduction that doesn't rob the music of its original "soul" !
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