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Post Subject: What Was That Number You Wanted, Again?Posted by Paul S on: 7/16/2011
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Isn't the bulk of the "digital" classical music currently available originally recorded, and/or transferred, and/or archived in 16/44? It has been my understanding that most of the current "upsampled" stuff is actually scrambled from what was (at one time, anyway) 16/44 archives. Not to mention that high digital numbers have nothing to do with the quality of a recording...
It would take more good examples before I started to believe that "remastered" digital was any more likely to improve things than "remastered" LPs. I can quickly think of one good example of digital re-mastering, but I think this was actually taken from tape, or maybe even the early equivalent of tape: Music and Arts, Furtwangler, 1943 Beethoven 9. However they did this, I wish they would do more the same way, including early Gieseking. No harm in starting with a world-class performance, either...
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