[LAU] Sampling rate and perceived audio quality [WAS]: Re: edirol fa101 on differant rate that 48k ?

[Fabio]

Em sexta-feira 19 novembro 2010, às 13:31:16, Joel Roth escreveu:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 01:01:26PM -0200, Fabio wrote:
> > Em sexta-feira 19 novembro 2010, às 12:27:57, fons at kokkinizita.net escreveu:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I suspect that very few of the re-releases on CD of vinyl recordings 
> > > are actually close to the original.
> > 
> > FACT, they compress the hell out of it.
> 
> If true, that certainly gives a lie to all the promotional
> materials about how they gave scrupulous care to maintain
> fidelity to the original recordings.
> 
> 

and how do they define "fidelity to the original recordings"?

they are all remastered (as they surley don't convert the traks from the master disc), by "fidelity" they mean that they use the original mix. and we know how mastering today works: the more compressing the "better"