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SONY admits
that CD/44.1PCM is inferior
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It has come to pass exactly as we predicted in 1992. SONY have created a new sound carrier that they claim is better than CD, so that you have to go and replace all of your CDs and your CD player. In
the new SONY catalogue, they boast about their new "Super Audio
CD", which, by means of a new type of digital encoding, produces
"...a result that is remarkably pure and faithful to the original". |
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| This is a lie. PCM was widely known to be inferior to analogue playback and recording systems. Everyone with objective ears noted, and still notes, the "cold" sound of CD. Now that SONY, the manufacturer of CD players has got you all to buy . |
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| CD players, and SONY Music has got you to replace all of your records and tapes, they decide to let you in on the open secret about the poor quality of CD sound. CD was billed by SONY as "perfect sound forever". CD was and is not even close to perfect; it was and is an inferior sound carrier, and now SONY are admitting exactly that in writing. All of the skeptics that put on listening tests to fool audiophiles are now looking VERY STUPID INDEED | |||||||||
| What this section translates to is that the process of recording audio with the old PCM equipment destroys the sound that it is trying to record. Your CD player, another piece of crap, further destroys the already mangled sound when you try and play back the information. Amazingly, they describe the sound of CD as having a "granular texture that |
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| underlies even the very best CD recordings". What this REALLY says is that 44.1PCM recordings themselves have this texture, which means that if you have recorded your masters with DAT, 1630, or any of the permutations that SONY have successfully sold you, your music is unrecoverable. Read it again. | |||||||||
| This is perhaps the most insulting and absurd section of all. SONY has the audacity say "you may want to throw out our old CDs". Lets think about this. Your favorite post analogue album was mastered in an all digital studio, with PCM machinery, onto a DAT, which was then copied onto 1630 tape, that was then copied to Exabyte before it was pressed into a CD. Of course, the sound |
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| was lost as soon as it entered the mixing desk. By the time it reached your CD player, it had been mashed several times. Now, if your favorite album is remastered onto Super Audio CD, FROM THE ONLY EXISTING MASTER, A PCM 1630 tape, then the maximum recovery of sound you can expect is that of a 1630. | |||||||||
| What
this means is that the true sound in every recording from the inception
of digital mastering in the PCM era, from Betamax PCM 501 up to
the CDRs and Exabytes that are now regularly sent to pressing plants,
is now, by the admission of SONY lost to mankind. The true sound
of these recordings will never EVER be heard by anyone, ever. Of
course all of the labels that took our
advice and mastered onto tape have been spared this disaster,
but the truth is most record labels deafly embraced CD and digital
mastering, and now, we all have to pay. We are collecting essays by other people on this subject, and listing them here. If you find one, please email us irdial@irdial.com |
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