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Designing Speakers For Music As You Would Experience It Live - Interview with Roy Delgado

Sal1950

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About 1 in 5 of my CDs sound a bit anomalously "hard" in the upper midrange. I have never heard this on a SACD or a reel to reel tape. It's worth it to me in order to enjoy the clear, clean, dynamic sound on the other 80%.
It's not the media but the instead the master that made that recording.
In the situations you brought up, they are always different sources.
Or possibly even your expectation bias of what you expect to hear.
 

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About 1 in 5 of my CDs sound a bit anomalously "hard" in the upper midrange. I have never heard this on a SACD or a reel to reel tape. It's worth it to me in order to enjoy the clear, clean, dynamic sound on the other 80%.

I've heard that too, and don't know what causes it. I don't think it's a frequency response emphasis; I think it's a distortion somewhere in the recording chain. My understanding is that distortions can show up as a tonalities.
 
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