John Phillips
pfm Member
Tags notwithstanding I just listened to Die Walküre Act 1 on Qobuz. It's very good and I will listen to the other Acts soon.Don't buy the download of Die Walkure from Presto Music for the moment - it hasn't been tagged.
After listening I compared the sound at a few points to the Qobuz 2012 version. Sonically, the 2022 re-master has quieter backgrounds (but is that spaciousness real or artificial?) and cleaner, apparently expanded dynamics (that's better). Musically it is no different of course.
The sonic differences are moderately subtle but seem good to me on a single audition. I assume these days that the noise and non-linear characteristics of the tape and the tape machine used at the time can now be described mathematically and some degree of their inverses applied for correction in the re-mastering process.