Sony Mastersound Gold Discs

[Andy]

I've only listened to Boston. It was a little bright. How do these discs compare to gold DCC or MFSL? What’s the general consensus on sound quality CD to CD?

[David R. Modny]

I tend to like most of Doug Sax's work at The Mastering Lab so I'm probably not one to give an opinion on the ones he did. I can say that, at the time these came out, there was a prevalent feeling going around that the (then new) SBM dither/noise-shaping process wasn't particularly refined as first introduced. Being that it was pretty much the first 20 to 16-bit noise-shaping black box on the market, some felt that it introduced audible artifacts into the signal and colored the resulting frequency response.

I even heard a rumor at one point that a certain engineer *stopped* using the black box...even though it was still being advertised on a certain label's packaging...lol!


Noise-shaping curves that came after (e.g. the Meridian), many people feel were an improvement.

[buster193]

I had boston,very harsh and loud.

[Dave]

Andy,

Check out my post "Mastersounds the good, the bad, and the ugly" on the forum somewhere as I own quite a few of these and have given the according rating (IMHO).;)

[Andy]

Okee Dokee:D

[Andy]

Dave,


Thanks I must have missed the previous thread some how. Please forgive my frivolous use of forum memory.:o