1st impressions of the JPN 2-Track, 35DP-4 (Wish You Were Here)

The only problem with this is that without using the pre-emphasis on burning you end up with overly inflated top and bottom frequencies that are also smeared. The definition does suffer as well.

 

On PC I use Exact Audio Copy, there's nothing like it.

 

Yes, so I've read. I'm on a Mac, and according to the EAC website, a port to the Mac is not in the cards.

I read elsewhere that iTunes was good for ripping discs with Pre-Emphasis. I tried it, and didn't seem to hear any difference with the copies made. Maybe the discs I tried with iTunes didn't have Pre-Emphasis in the first place?

Anyone else have success with iTunes and Pre-Empahasis discs? Any alternatives for a Mac?

 

Here's a thread where it has been discussed: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=76710 and it makes reference to this thread on Hydrogen Audio: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=38312

Hope it helps.

 

Thanks, Black Elk! I will try to hunt something down and return to share if successful.

 

From my brief searches on the site hydrogenaudio.com:

I found that if you're on a Mac, iTunes is the only Mac OS software that supposedly has Pre-Emphasis adjusting going on in ripping a cd with a Pre-Emphasis flag, and according to one lister, does it pretty well - although the exact numbers for the "curve" that iTunes supposedly applies are unknown.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=38312

Don't want to threadjack so I'll stop here!

 

My copy finally arrived today. Sounds warm and lovely...just like my old vinyl used to be.

 

Congrats Fumi!!!

Glad to see you finally get it..If you ever come across another for sale please holler!

 

After months of regular checking and seeing declared Wish You Were Here 2-track discs go for astronomical sums...

The other day, I saw a listing that seemed "let's take a chance"-worthy. There was only one photo: at an angle, showing the cover art (with the compact disc logo in the lower right corner), in a smooth-sided case. A one word description: "great".

$3.75 buy-it-now, with $2.99 shipping. What the hell?

The package arrived today, and when I opened it up, I started looking at the details and feeling my heart stop. Matrix 35DP-4 71A4. CSR Compact Disc repeating 3 times around the hub. Disc made in Japan. Read as 2 tracks in Windows Media Player.

Tonight, I will be enjoying a sip from the Grail.

 

I love reading stories like this. Congratulations, and enjoy!

 

great story. I got mine by buying a CD lot with many other discs not just Pink Floyd cool thing was there was also a black face Dark Side (japan) and about another 8 or 10 discs if I remember right the lot price ended at under $60 with the 2 track WYWH included. I did ask ahead of time about the matrix on the WYWH disc so I knew what was coming.

 

Well done! Enjoy it!

 

I got mine for about the same price.