06-Jan-2015, 00:37
(05-Jan-2015, 23:38)Confused Wrote: The problem I have is rather different, in that there is not much music released in "better than CD" quality that I would actually want to listen to. I'm not saying that there isn't anything at all, just not much at the moment. I think the situation is improving, but very slowly. I also believe that extremely good results can be obtained via plain old 16/44.1 but the problem is the appalling quality of the mastering on so many recordings and the staggeringly common problem on CD's that the mastering priority appears to make the recording as loud as possible.
Yup brick wall mastering is a big issue, compressed to within a inch of its life! as you pointed out you can get great results from 44.1 providing mastering is done well, back to my point the formats ain't the issue its post production processing/mastering
