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Yoshi, someone a few weeks ago posted a very good article on a pianist perception of added reverb. Anyhow, there is a bigger fish to fry regarding your ORIGINAL-IMAGE BIT-PROCESSING – like in anything else it is not the subject of machines but the stupid people who use machines stupidly - here is my favorite topic!

Sure, the noise redaction is not good and your Naoya Hirabayashi does not say anything new. Still, the properly implemented noise redaction is perfectly fine. Do not ask me what constitutes “properly implemented noise redaction” – I do not know but I have seen when it was done well, with no negative impact. It means it is not the faulty concepts but just faulty implementation in 99.99% of all times. Sure, to run Cedar Audio Restoration or NoNoise programs does not requite a lot of brain or skills but the result is very pinpointingly bad. The people who do well sounding nose redaction employ more sophisticated tools and more sophisticated methods of result control.  I personally still prefer do not do DSP of any kind but if to embrace a task to reduce noise (with commercial mastering) then it should be done properly…

The same goes with ORIGINAL-IMAGE BIT-PROCESSING. When DG introduced it with their “Originals” series the “Image-Bit” sounded phenomenal however if you do today into the store and by DECCA’s ORIGINAL-IMAGE BIT processed CD then you will see that they are horrible garbage, even those that care the “Originals” logos. The difference is not in technology but in the people who use it. In 90s DG invited musicians and conductors in the mastering rooms an offer them to overview the possess of re-mastering. The mandatory participant of the mastering team during those years was a “tone-master” – a person who have musical and listening expertise and who navigated the Sound to where it should be. Presumably since the re-mastering nowadays is more like McDonalds job for those big companies the cultural elite is gone and in the place of people who know about sound they have nodays the Morons with diplomas of electricians. The CDs that they produce and the sound that they “shape” is a pure evidence of what is going on in their heads….

So, it is not mashies who are guilty but people…. Ironically I do not really blame those people… To do so is like to blame an alligator that he bite your leg off….

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