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Jazz at the Pawnshop 3-cd set

I just received the new 3-cd set, it sounds great and I played it against my 25 year old double LP and the cd's hold there own and this is after the tapes being 30 years older then my LP's when they were used to master.

Yes I have a difference both have their advantages, which one is right who knows, I never heard the master tapes!! So how can we even talk about which medium comes closer?

I read once that if we ever heard a master tape of recordings we would not like either Vinyl or CD as a playback medium. So I just enjoy the music now days because so much impacts what we finally hear, tubes, solid state, type of LP or CD player, type of cartridges used, cables, room treatments, powercords, conditioners etc.

I think all of the above impacts what we base our judgments on. So I don't buy into much of which is right, I can tell you towards the end of the LP days I purchased a back up copy of a lp that I liked, I played that LP when I got home and it sounded like an poor copy of my LP, in fact it sounded worse then any of my current CD do.

So you cannot say Vinyl is the absolute better medium, I would say that if you have a first run pressing of a lp from 30-50 years ago when the master tape was new and you own one of the first pressings (100,000) I would guess it be hard for a CD to better it due to the age of the tape used to make that cd, though I have heard some DSD masterings that beat even those LP's in my collection, so I guess it gets into the time and care they but into the mastering just like in the LP days.

Mr. B



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