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From: "Arny Krueger"
Date: 6/22/2004 2:46 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"JBorg" wrote in message
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He was talking about distribution format. He had said that sound
differences heard among various format cannot be attributed and
interpreted directly as relevant to their respective format.

That is something that I have said from time to time.

Do you hear sound differences when listening to, say, between ordinary
cd's against, say, sacd's ?

Those sound differerences can only be reliably attributed to the format if
you know for sure that the two pieces of different media were made in such a
way that the limitations of the respective mediums is the only cause for
there to be any audible differences.

The major record companies have gone out of their way and remastered all of
the recordings available in the SACD format, in an effort to make honest and
fair comparisons impossible.

AFAIK, there are zero examples of matched SACD and CDA media like that on
the market today. John Atkinson was bragging here, in the past week or so,
that Stereophile will offer the first known example of such a thing later on
this year.

OK what are the differences in the mastering of the latest offerings from Audio
Fidelity between the CD layer and the SACD layer? They were mastered by the
same guy with the same equipment in the same mastering suite during the same
mastering sessions.