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I ordered some new piano recordings last month and just got the last one today.
I was awaiting them eagerly as they appeared to be of acceptable quality aswell,
or atleast i thought so as they were digital remasters in 24bit 96kHz.
Most recordings are realy old but to me that didn't mean much as i have listened to several recordings of this aera with great fidelity.
[size=small]Now listening to my new CDs, ALL of them have an awfull lot of distortion and clipping!
The piano sounds heavily coloured muffled and its ringing, not just a bit but you might come to the conclusion your not listening to piano music but some arrangement for piano and a telephone bell.[/size]
Did i just pick a bad examples for remastering? Are those specific recordings just plain bad/has the tapes quality degraded that much already?
Or did i just discover i cant listen to old recordings anymore because my (modest) gear exposes the flaw just to blatantly?
I recently acquired remasters of Glenn Gould performance of bachs Goldbergvariations
and this CD
of Bartok playing his own works
and goodman and szigeti playing Kontraste by Bartok
+ today a compilation of Horowitz playing a collection of classical piano pieces
now all of them are said to be remastered with 24bits and 96kHz and come form membran Music
I was awaiting them eagerly as they appeared to be of acceptable quality aswell,
or atleast i thought so as they were digital remasters in 24bit 96kHz.
Most recordings are realy old but to me that didn't mean much as i have listened to several recordings of this aera with great fidelity.
[size=small]Now listening to my new CDs, ALL of them have an awfull lot of distortion and clipping!
The piano sounds heavily coloured muffled and its ringing, not just a bit but you might come to the conclusion your not listening to piano music but some arrangement for piano and a telephone bell.[/size]
Did i just pick a bad examples for remastering? Are those specific recordings just plain bad/has the tapes quality degraded that much already?
Or did i just discover i cant listen to old recordings anymore because my (modest) gear exposes the flaw just to blatantly?
I recently acquired remasters of Glenn Gould performance of bachs Goldbergvariations
and this CD
of Bartok playing his own works
and goodman and szigeti playing Kontraste by Bartok
+ today a compilation of Horowitz playing a collection of classical piano pieces
now all of them are said to be remastered with 24bits and 96kHz and come form membran Music
