Alicia Keys: did the era of lossy mastering just begin?, Spoiler alert: spectral views included revealing nothing definitive. |
Alicia Keys: did the era of lossy mastering just begin?, Spoiler alert: spectral views included revealing nothing definitive. |
 Nov 28 2012, 20:49
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Group: Members Posts: 339 Joined: 24-November 08 Member No.: 63072  |
This is snapshot of one of the tracks of accurately ripped original CD with Eac (LOG 100%):
  If I'm right this is 1st album mastered from lossy source. ..more snapshots:  
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Nov 28 2012, 21:05
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Group: Members Posts: 339 Joined: 24-November 08 Member No.: 63072 |
I don't get however why the hard cutoff. Never seen that on CD audio.
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Nov 28 2012, 23:04
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 Group: Developer Posts: 618 Joined: 6-December 08 From: Erlangen Germany Member No.: 64012 |
QUOTE (Anakunda @ Nov 28 2012, 22:05)  I don't get however why the hard cutoff. Never seen that on CD audio. Check any CD from the 80s. I don't recall any which does not have this 20-kHz lowpass. Which in the 80s was due to a conservative lowpass during A/D conversion. In Alicia's album I'd guess it's because they used some analog processing during mixing or mastering (and then some conservative A/D converter for some reason). What scares me are the lines going to 22 kHz. This is solid gold digital waveform clipping. Chris This post has been edited by C.R.Helmrich: Nov 28 2012, 23:09 -------------------- If I don't reply to your reply, it means I agree with you.
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Anakunda Alicia Keys: did the era of lossy mastering just begin? Nov 28 2012, 20:49
lvqcl The lowpass at ~20.5 kHz doesn't necessarily m... Nov 28 2012, 21:02 greynol I don't see anything in those spectral graphs ... Nov 28 2012, 21:04
soundping QUOTE (C.R.Helmrich @ Nov 28 2012, 17:04)... Nov 29 2012, 01:09 greynol I've seen it plenty. There is no issue here. Nov 28 2012, 21:07 Anakunda I don't see any good reason for doing this on ... Nov 28 2012, 21:15 DVDdoug As you may know, low-pass filtering is a required ... Nov 28 2012, 21:54 |
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