Thanks for share Ivan. To me vinyl is the way to go whether it’s vinyl from the golden days or the vinyl being released today as long as it’s AAA and by a long shot. Next best to me are my CD’s from the 80’s or a select few from the Audiophile labels.
CD’s after the 80’s started to be compressed and are now to a point of being over the top. Just check most of the DR levels of the Hi-Rez downloads. Most are in the DR level of -6 to -8. For example The Rolling Stones remastered CD’s or Hi-Rez downloads sound absolutely horrible IMHO. Compare any one of them to the original CD’s or the SACD’s from 2002 or CD’s from 1994. After that no bueno. There many, many more examples.
As always YMMV.
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Paul
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