Remastered CDs, HDCDs, SACDs


CD is my only source. My album collection is somewhere around 800 discs. I have found significant differences in SQ (sound quality) comparing original releases to remastered releases. To my ear, Bob Ludwig was the best engineer for that. 

I was speaking with a local recording engineer and mentioned how much I liked Bob's work. He replied Bob boosted 2 dB at 150 Hz.

In order of SQ (worst to best) my rankings are original CD, original HDCD, remastered CD, remastered HDCD, original SACD, remastered SACD.

Those rankings are usually the case, though occasionally they may vary.

Happy listening to all. Enjoy the music!

tomcarr

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My favorite part of remastered and brought up to 24/192 is that especially for rock music which is bass heavy, they can tweak the bass (which vinyl can't do as well for technical reasons), so it sounds truer to how the bands sounded in concert.  

I usually buy from Qobuz because if you have their a specific tier subscription, the high-def music becomes cheaper than purchasing the 16/44.    Many of the new artists don't even issue standard CD's these days because everyone listens on Spotify, and Qobuz has them in at least 24/96.   I also use HDTracks if they have something Qobuz doesn't or they have it cheaper.