When is digital going to get the soul of music?

When a person dies he weighs 0.00044 ounces lighter as measured with an atomic scale. That's the mass of his soul.

The texture and sweetness is all wrong or completely MIA on digital, some are a little better but by and large tape, even the humble cassette, gets this critical part right. Digital is just SO bland. There, now I feel better.

Of course, you could always argue, and successfully IMO, that the problem with digital does not lie with either the recording technology or the media (optical discs) but with the playback system. Has anyone noticed that stock off the shelf CDs for the most part tend to sound like papier mâché? And that they sound like the dynamics are compressed, that information appears to be missing, and they sound rather irritating, you know, what with all the distortion, lack of fully developed bass and wiry, rolled off high frequencies.

That's the other Ric Schultz.

;-)

Steve, different strokes for different folks. If you could hear what I've heard with my ears...

Cheers

The texture and sweetness is all wrong or completely MIA on digital, some are a little better but by and large tape, even the humble cassette, gets this critical part right. Digital is just SO bland. There, now I feel better.

Speaking of tape hiss how come one rarely hears it with CDs? I kind like at least to be able to hear it if it's there. I smell a rat.

Digital compare to a good tape deck is akin to the steak in the movie The Fly that gets teleported from one pod to the other. When the steak is recovered from the second pod it's grilled up and tasted. But it tastes terrible, not like a steak, something happened on the way to the second pod.