The Most Digital Recording You Ever Heard


You can generally tell them by weight. In the early days of the CD when they really had no idea of how to put music on a disk they also used to put a lot of plastic in the jewel cases. Sometimes I pick a CD I haven't listened to for a while, get a feel of it and think, "Oh, one of these." Any initial release year starting with "198" will give you a certain sense of trepidation. The question I put before the house is, what was the digital recording that your view epitomized everything that was wrong with digital. Some that come off the top of my head:

Any Proper box set.
Any Collector's Choice reissue.
The original issue of These Foolish Things by Bryan Ferry.

The Angel Broadway Classics series was particularly frustrating because on the one hand you finally escape from fake stereo but on the other the mastering was pretty sketchy.
 
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millercarbon:  First off, don't surmise that "everyone on here" feels that digital is worse than analog, that's not the case, not by a longshot.  Speaking just for me, I've heard the good of both, and I own the good of digital and I'm totally happy with it.  You're so invested in analog/vinyl that I'm sure it would kill you (not literally) to admit that digital is just as good, if not better, than vinyl.  Above and beyond the SQ, of which modern digital is superior, there's the choice !  $14.99 a month for thousands upon thousands of choices of varying genres, you'd have to be a blithering idiot not to recognize that.  Maybe every dinosaur on here likes analog versus digital, but certainly you're wrong when it comes to "everyone" thinking analog is superior.  Pop, hiss, scratch.....