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Post subject: Re: LAST release pressings better than OLDER ones? Posted: 28 Nov 2011, 18:29 |
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Two major factors come into play. Firstly, the state of the art of film-to-video transfers was advancing. Many later LDs were made from High Definition masters, or at the very least from high-quality flying-spot-scanner transfers. Secondly, with the advent of digital-domain video recording & editing, especially D1, generation loss from the initial transfer to the disc master was avoided. This contributed to a consistently higher quality of the recorded signal, although earlier discs exhibited a comparable level of quality sporadically. It's really a shame that one of the most advanced plants was used by Sony DADC, which made really beautiful discs, but owing to its persistent chemistry problems, ones that didn't last.
Beyond that, I tend to assume that the mastering equipment & pressing processes improved somewhat, with fewer dropouts, less pit asymmetry, cleaner replicated pit shapes, &c, which would improve the quality of the FM output.
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