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Jenn wrote:
So, after a week of living with the Clearaudio TT/arm/cartridge, I love
it more and more. The sound that I am getting from my records is just
so effortless and easy... like a good concert hall. I just put on
several CDs, and I just don't get that with them. The timbres are
thinner and less life-like. I wish that it were the other way around,
but it's not. If this is due to "euphonic distortion", bring on more
of
it!

I had some superb LP equipment. If I never hear another LP in my life,
that will be too soon..

I hate LPs!

Compression. Inner-groove distortion. Pops. Ticks. Rumble. Wow.
Flutter.

Good riddance!

If it weren't for the number of recordings available only on CD (the
vast majority, of course), and the fact that they play in the car, I
would pretty much say "good riddance" to CDs. The screechy violins.
The lifeless voices. The Bach trumpets that sound like Getzens. Yuck.

You need to blame the people who played them, the people who mastered them,
the original media they were recorded on, anything you can thinbk of other
than the CD medium itself. It is a simple fact that what you hear on a CD
is what was put there, IOW an accurate representation of the master.

Someone posted an exerpt from a paper in the AESJ about the mastering
and production of the wonderful Mercury Living presence CDs. They did
extensive blind listening tests and concluded that there is indeed a
lot that can go wrong between the output of the mastering engineer and
the playback from a commercial CD. It is not a simple fact that what
you hear on a CD is what they put there in as far as what came out of
the mastering engineer's console.

Scott