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Well mastered Compact Disks

CD's  are coming back. And rightly so. If one has a good dedicated red book CD player then the SQ is still better than any streaming, if the CD has been mastered well.

These Carmen Gomes Inc. albums are exemplary. Dynamic range is left unhindered and to my ears they sound just about as good as the DXD versions.

Please feel free to suggests more examples of well mastered compact Discs.

 

kefas

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fyn
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@spenav  Bill Evans village vanguard, that's my favorite mastering as well.

fyn
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Here is one; 

fyn
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All her albums recorded by Sound Liaison the Visual Sound sounds amazing.

I don't know where her CD's were mastered but the ones I have does come close to the original studio master download even though they are 'only' redbook CD's.

fyn
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That album  has gotten several very good reviews. Here is one more;

....."This is some of the best sounding drum sound I have ever heard on a recording. Very dynamic and not reserved. The sound of the double bass is full, rich and powerful where needed but with no hint of bloat. And the guitar.....It is clear and reverberant. Naturally, not with added reverb. Of course, the vocals are captured beautifully. Carmen is right there in front of you. This recording doesn’t take you to the recording studio. Even better, it brings the recording studio to your listening room. Very few studio recordings do this. The drums to the left, Carmen in the middle in front of the instruments and the bass just to the right of her and the guitar to the right side of the soundstage. The sound is totally three dimensional. You almost feel like you can reach out and touch everyone. The sound is totally open with natural decay and depth. It is stunning. It really is. No hyperbole."....REVIEW CARMEN GOMES - UP JUMPED THE DEVIL BY JOE WHIP FOR AUDIOPHILE STYLE 

fyn
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Just reading through the March edition of Hifi-news & Record Magazine.

There is a review of the Moonriver Audio Model 404 Reference Integrated Amplifier

The reviewer is using the 

for the review;

SUBTLETY WINS OUT
Play Carmen Gomes, Inc.’s latest
album, Ray! [Sound Liaison SL1052A;
DXD], and the sheer intimacy of
Gomes’s voice, accompanied by no
more than guitar, bass and drums
– or indeed just bass on ‘The Sun Is
Gonna Shine Again’ – makes for a
compelling listen, the amp working
with source and speakers to give a
real ‘artists in the room’ effect.
There’s no overt ‘hi-fi ness’ here,
but instead an honest, rich and
enveloping sound....https://www.hifinews.com/content/moonriver-audio-model-404-reference-integrated-amplifier-page-2

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