On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:40:11 -0700, "Stephen Sank"
wrote:

For one place, in the noise floor. I've heard many examples(way too many) of "remastered" CD's
where the (so-called) mastering engineer got obsessed with removing tape hiss, at the very
noticeable expense of ambient sound information. Any more, I take a label saying "remastered"
as a warning label. From what my SACD-invested friends tell me, that situation is no better
there, either. snip

Right you are! These poor attempts at "de-hissing" analog masters
usually take down a portion of the top end with it, just like that
cheap software you get with Sound Blastard sound cards. It's even
worse than EQing down the hiss; these programs simply destroy anything
within about 3 dB of the noise floor in the hiss spectrum. Of course,
the kids think all this crap is great, just like they think mp3s are
great...and they're not.

dB