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In the Thread: Japanese Super High Material CD
Post Subject: Impressions from Japanese blogPosted by yoshi on: 2/1/2008
I found many reports on SHM-CD sound on Japanese blog sites. Most of them comment very favorably on SHM-CD, clear, better resolution, livelier, etc. Some mentions different balance compared to the CD version, many comments SHM-CD sound louder than CD. Almost all of them are comparison reports on Rock/Jazz releases. One guy reports the comparison between SHM-CD and CD version of Klieber's Beethoven 5th and says what they did is just to increase the volume level so that it feels like you hear more details, but because of that, the orchestral tutti became to suffer from compression.
On HMV site, they mention which years' remastering are used in SHM-CD but only on Rock albums. According to that record, SHM-CD are not newly remastered but previously remastered version just pressed with the new plastic material.
Yoshi
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