"dale" wrote in message
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deficences can be do to the actual mqastering involved, the quality of
the da and other such issues.
when cd first became commercial, many companies released their
catlogues using the LP master
with the RIAA curve intact

Mmm, no. They may have been using tapes that had been EQ'd for vinyl
mastering, but not RIAA. That was applied in the mastering process, not on
the tapes.

and the players were outputting the audio
one sample out of time, L then R then L then R.

Which gives the effect of moving one of your speakers approximately 7.8mm
closer to you than the other.

There were problems with early digital recording, plenty of them, and they
haven't been entirely solved yet. But these two items were not among them.

Peace,
Paul