morphsci
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I agree with these statements completely. My problem with poor masterings/recordings and upsampling is not with brightness per se but with an increased ability to hear details. In good recordings this is an advantage as you hear more natural decays and the reverberation of plucked strings. However, on poorly mastered/recorded disks you here further into the poor quality. Sometimes this manifests itself as brightness or harshness, but not always.
| Originally posted by JaZZ An equalizer emphasizes or attenuates certain frequency ranges. The subtle sonic differences between upsampling and none don't sound like this at all. Don't misunderstand the comments regarding the incompatibility of upsampling with some bright recordings – in fact it doesn't generally make the sound brighter, just different, particularly influencing the perception of space. How is this giving you truer sound to the original source? That's not necessarily the case, but it sounds a bit more natural and less technical to me. As others have stated: the diference is similar (though in a clearly minor degree) like after switching from CD to SACD (which isn't generally brighter than CD, too). |
I agree with these statements completely. My problem with poor masterings/recordings and upsampling is not with brightness per se but with an increased ability to hear details. In good recordings this is an advantage as you hear more natural decays and the reverberation of plucked strings. However, on poorly mastered/recorded disks you here further into the poor quality. Sometimes this manifests itself as brightness or harshness, but not always.
