And from his original link, if you follow that there's also this:
Here is an incomplete list of pre-emphasis CDs.
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And from his original link, if you follow that there's also this:
Here is an incomplete list of pre-emphasis CDs.
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Given the amount of time people discuss things like cables, fuses etc on Hi-Fi forums - it amazes me that so few people seem to know or care about pre-emphasis.
I wonder how people on here have "Dare" by The Human League or the first two Heaven 17 albums, or China Crisis "Working With Fire and Steel", OMD "Architecture & Morality", The Blue Nile "Hats" etc etc...
...like I say we are not talking obscure albums here.
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Not all releases of those albums will have pre-emphasis though.Originally Posted by Theadmans
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True - but if you are like me and detest modern brickwalled remasters...
...you will want the first UK CD (which is usually the one with Pre-Emphasis).
Having gone to the trouble of finding a decent mastering - it seems foolish to not then deal with the pre-emphasis.
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Agreed on all counts. Multi band EQ will compensate, just gradually reduce all frequencies after 1Khz.
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How does the owner of early CDs know they have PE, or are we blaming it for any CD that sounds 'bad'. In which case its very many.
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Read the full thread - there is nothing to tell you whether the disc has PE on the CD or booklet.
You need to consult one of the lists in this thread or Discogs (for the precise issue of a certain album).
My old 1990s Cambridge Dacmagic 2 MkII had a handy light showing the presence of PE (but new kit won't).
The disturbing thing is CD Player manufacturers have dropped the PE decoding from their machines over the last 20 years.
The only way round this is to create flacs and manually de-emphasize them using SOX (or similar).
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You will have to search the internet for every catalogue number.
I have hundreds of CDs and none of them sound 'bad'. No classical music though if that's what you mean. I know some Classical enthusiast who are fussy about the recording and production qualities. But that would be the same on any medium.
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My first ever CD (Clannad - Legend) had it but I didn't know until much later.
It does make Maire Brennan's voice more ethereal sounding I've got to say!
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I had no inkling of this, and assumed just mixdown variation and compression were the only variables.
Does this pre-emphasis parallel that in FM?
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