Title: Great albums, but why so much brighter than original vinyl?
Product review: This was the first time I'd heard these wonderful albums and thanks to reviewers for the great recommendation. But I was very surprised (and suspicious) at how bright the new CD sounded. So I bought a used vinyl copy of "Don't Go to Strangers" for a direct A/B comparison via software spectrum analysis, and discovered that the CD had indeed been brightened (+2.4 dB at 2KHz; +4.3 dB at 4 KHz; +6.6 dB above 8 KHz). The manufacturer may have boosted the highs for the "wow" factor, like putting more sugar in Coca-Cola. But this is a BIG boost and I wonder if it might have been a mistake with de-emphasis from the original Columbia tapes. But I'm perfectly happy here, as have copied the original to a CD-R after taming with a 10-band software equalizer. Plus, I now have a copy of the original 12 inch album cover of the beautiful Eydie!Keep having fun out there, Bill.
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