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Can anything be down about this? There must be an agenda!

Remastered digital download flac 16/44 have a look at the waveform https://i.postimg.cc/FzXBKzXh/capture-20200716-054246.jpg

1st press vinyl 24/96 1977 https://i.postimg.cc/Lsdfw1t4/s2.jpg

Can somebody anybody tell me how to get rid of this? This is not an isolated case friends this is the norm. Everytime a waveform looks like sample 1 the music is unlistenable! l love the convenience of digital audio however what good is convenience if it's unlistenable? There must be a filter or plugin that can reverse this and make the digital waveform look like the 1st press vinyl waveform.l know i'm late to the game however in 2020 somebody should have come of with something by now?
guitarsam

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cd318
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guitarsam,

Sorry mate, but it was a long time ago when we just went to the store and bought the latest LP. Poor/careless mastering has been the biggest issue with digital for the last 30 years!

You might do better to go on personal recommendations from others who have checked out and compared different masterings of the same material you're interested in.

Hence also the existence of sites like this one.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/forums/music-corner.2/
cd318
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millercarbon,

'A secret meeting was held on Jeckyl Island in which the titans of the music industry agreed to keep secret the details of how to make perfect digital. They all knew the key to long term profits was to slowly and gradually year by year go from absolute crap to slightly less absolute crap.'


If you look at all the various Pop/Rock remasters/reissues/box sets/ Hi-Res downloads etc it's all too to easy to draw the same conclusion that the decision not offer definitive digital remasters is a deliberate one.

Just look at how many times the back catalogues from the likes of The Beatles, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, The Smiths etc have all been reissued without anything yet like a definitive version.

Even today in far too many cases the original 1980s CD issues are still deemed the best. Definitive digital releases are few and far between, at least as far as popular music goes.

The two exceptions to my ears are the back catalogues of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Those CDs already sound excellent and I'm not expecting any further improvements there.
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