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I'd get the Rega. If you ever decide to move up the TT ladder, the Rega will be considerably be easier to sell. I don't know of anyone buying used McIntosh TTs; used Regas get sold every day of the week.
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Stephen, Yoshida-san did not master every recording.
The SHM mastering of the Dire Straits albums on SACD are legendary IMHO. As a Dire Straits fan, I could care less if they are 1/1000 of the 0.5% of SACDs. I love them and can easily play them in a native format on my ROON/SILENZIO/K03x system. For me, I am willing to pay for that success as much as some may pay for other priorities. Humbly, I think you are stating clear opinions that are not necessarily fact.
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thanks for the added considerations and thoughts on MQA and the TT!! |
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Hey Craig, Yep, fully acknowledge that these are just my opinions. But, being the empirically-minded scientist that I am, my opinons are also founded on my direct experiences, too. Just for sake of accuracy, I never said that Alan Yoshida mastered every recording, I was only relating a point about the Audio Wave XRCD24 Blue Note series that was made on Elusive Disc. I'm sure SHM mastering of the Dire Straits is superb, as you say. And, I've got a number of SACDs, particularly classical content, that are also excellent. And, I'm also not saying that aren't other superb mastering engineers, e.g. Steve Hoffman, Bob Ludwig, Bernie Grundman, etc, or the guys at Linn, for example. Of course there are. But I would posit the hypothesis is the reason the Dire Straits album sounds as good as it does is primarily because of the quality of the recording and mastering more so than because its on SACD as a format, per se. My main point is that in "Audiophile-La-La-Land" there tends to be more concern over "techology" than other factors that, in my experience, have proven to be more important. Sometimes considerably more important. I've seen a lot of audiophiles get caught up in "technology for the sake of technology", with the assumption that the "tech" is all that matters. For example, guys putting huge amounts of money upgrading from the Schntiznit Reference pre to the Schiznit Signature Reference Platinum pre rather than doin' stuff like...fixing the room. Or implementing clean power. 10 years ago everyone was all worked up about DSD, now some are worked up in the same way about MQA. And this gets back to my the point I was trying to make; in my experience, one can't unequivocally state that Redbook 16/44 is inherently inferior to MQA or even an LP; the quality of the recording and mastering is, in my experience, a larger factor than the specific format. Cheers and thanks for weighing in for a great discussion.
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Great post...I fully agree! For the record, as many know I am a huge fan of XRCD and XRCD2, XRCD24 and related formats and the early work by Yoshida-san. It is worthwhile to note that Winston Ma took this format even further with his XRCD, XRCD2, XRCD24, K2HD (24bit, 100 Hz) and follow on work. There are things out there leveraging DSD as well and the format is not dead by any means. I agree with PumaCat's comments regarding 2 most important factors. We should throw in a 3rd for the record, that being quality of the remastering work and format chosen as well. It is for all these reasons that I own analog, PCM and DSD-originating work using where applicable, remastered or origin on straight RBCD, XRCD(n), K2HD, DXD and DSD media formats. |
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Hi Mark, Thanks for joining in. Just a note about Alan Yoshida, if you haven't checked out any of his more recent work, specifically the Audio Wave XCRD24 Blue Note series, big reco from me...really superb. Joe Bob says, "Check it out." When I was referring to mastering my original comments about format, specifically MQA, etc, I was including "re-mastering" as part of that. I should have mentioned in the first place, that so thanks for bringing it up and I agree with you on that point. And yep, I've got digital content in all those formats you mention above, sometimes there's not an alternative. Particularly with classical repertoire, where much of the digital content is on SACD. My point regarding MQA specifically was that, in my view, the "fundamentals" play a bigger role than any specific format. Cheers, mate.
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The first 20 are on a top-100 disc list out of a rather large collection for me here. Numerous friends, vinyl junkies among them, have heard them here and swear they are the most amazing discs they have heard (as do I) and various people they could not hear anything that could be done better by vinyl. |
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Hi Stephen, I was referring to the sentence - paraphrasing - if Alan Yoshida had mastered all CDs, there wouldn’t have been any need for other formats. Perhaps but no or very few CDs I own come close to the fidelity of the SHM SACDS. Absolutely no argument that the recording/mastering makes the music. Not the format. I suspect SACDs sound better in general to my ears than most CDs because they are remastered and there was more care out into the process but maybe not. MQA is not anywhere on my radar since ceasing my Tidal subscription. ‘It’s dead to me’. I appreciate this thread as well. Lots of good information and observations.
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