From public anemone Sent Fri, Jan 22nd 1999, 22:22
From public anemone Sent Fri, Jan 22nd 1999, 22:22
> On the aluminum Floyd, if you crank it up, the first thing you hear is tape hiss. On the > gold, those heartbeats fade up out of almost nowhere and shake the house. The JJ CD, which > is orchestral (quite out of print and bloody brilliant BTW), has some very heavy and dramatic > accents (sforzandi for you armchair musicologists), and the difference between the aluminum > and gold CD's is like a slap vs. a punch. > > It might be that the gold CD's are simply mastered more meticulously though. That can make a > big difference. it is due to a difference in mastering. the *only* diff. btw. gold and aluminum cd's is that if you somehow manage to scratch the protective layer off an alum cd, it will start to corrode (a bit like the 'disc rot' which used to occur on pdo cd's) and gold cd's will not corrode. well, that and they cost more to produce/ so if you're buying a gold cd remaster, you're paying (heavily) for the remastering....