Steve_AS
Second Unit
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I assume that he's talking about the noise reduction software ("no-noise") from Sonic Solutions that removes noise from tape recordings and disc masters. This process has nothing to do with consumer products or 'euphonic' colorations though.
It most certainly does, since it (NoNoise), or some other form of noise reduction, often is used when mastering CDs, which are consumer products. It's especially common on remasters of previously released CDs from analog sources. One could quite properly term noise reduction as 'euphonic distortion' since it represent divergence from fidelity to the source tape (i.e., distortion), while producing a result that is pleasant to some ears (i.e. euphonic). More commonly the phrase euphonic distortion refers to some of the divergences from fidelity to the master tape that are either inherent to the LP medium, or
which have been commonly incorporated in LP mastering to make the medium more widely playable.