such CD where I can tell there is a noticeable hiss during quiet part the music.

Why does the master tape cause hissing?

Not all CDs are created from the original masters. Some of them are created from tapes of the originals. That's usually because the original master has been damaged or lost. They just create the CDs from the best tape recording they can salvage. Sometimes the original master is so old and degraded that an early tape recording of the master will sound BETTER than the original master.

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Not all CDs are created from the original masters. Some of them are created from tapes of the originals. That's usually because the original master has been damaged or lost. They just create the CDs from the best tape recording they can salvage. Sometimes the original master is so old and degraded that an early tape recording of the master will sound
BETTER than the original master.

If one read above conciously... so much history hidden between the lines.. Absolutely astonishing to realize that.

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ALONZO (21:1/130) wrote to candycane <=-

Not all CDs are created from the original masters. Some of them are created from tapes of the originals. That's usually because the
original master has been damaged or lost. They just create the CDs from the best tape recording they can salvage. Sometimes the original master
is so old and degraded that an early tape recording of the master will sound BETTER than the original master.

Sparks had difficulties getting a copy of the original masters for their 1977 album introducing Sparks, that they had to use a copy of the Vinyl record to make the digital release.





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Sparks had difficulties getting a copy of the original masters for their 1977 album introducing Sparks, that they had to use a copy of the Vinyl record to make the digital release.

That may have been what I was thinking of.

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