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I've been enjoying some needle drop's lately, and after explaining
what they were to my girlfriend, she asked "what kind of sense does
that make if the LP just ends up on CD?" I immediately remembered that
it never really made any sense to me either other than the fact my
ears seem to enjoy some of them far more than their "regular" CD
equivalents (even CDs that are not digitally remastered but use the
original mix). The first obvious explanation that seems to make any
sense to me is that the EQing ends up being different at the end of a
phono chain than it is at the end of a regularly mastered CD, and that
my ears simply prefer the former. Is there/could there be anything
else to it? Could someone please shed some light on this subject for
me?

[MiNe 109]

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I've been enjoying some needle drop's lately, and after explaining
what they were to my girlfriend, she asked "what kind of sense does
that make if the LP just ends up on CD?" I immediately remembered that
it never really made any sense to me either other than the fact my
ears seem to enjoy some of them far more than their "regular" CD
equivalents (even CDs that are not digitally remastered but use the
original mix). The first obvious explanation that seems to make any
sense to me is that the EQing ends up being different at the end of a
phono chain than it is at the end of a regularly mastered CD, and that
my ears simply prefer the former. Is there/could there be anything
else to it? Could someone please shed some light on this subject for
me?

Yes, lps often have different masterings than the equivalent cds.
Mastering styles (eq, dynamic range. etc) change due to market
pressure/fashion so an lp from the seventies might sound different from
a recent cd issue.

It's all a big crap shoot: today's higher technical level vs. changing
styles of mastering.

Stephen