shadorne
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| Half the information on CDs is analogue You haven't lived unless you have laid down flat on the floor and kicked your legs to propel yourself around in circles with an air guitar in your hands and with "Back in Black" playing at 110 decibels (average) and screaming all the time Angus, A... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Exlibris,Doug Sax at the Mastering Lab is very good and in very high demand (he has won so many awards). For pop stuff/country, he uses compression like most everyone these days but at least he uses it sparingly. Check him out on Artist Direct and... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Axelfonze,I agree with you that it is the market (cars, iPod's in the gym etc.) that drives the industry to "hot" sounding CD's and nothing to do with the technology or the mastering engineer's abilities. Fortunately movie soundtracks have not hea... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Sean,Interesting article about the compression on modern pop CD's. This matches my experience....it all sounds ok in the car or on a boombox but on my system I hear it for what it is....lots of distortion and monotonously loud and dull sounding.If... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Sean,Yeah the percentage is small...I grant you that. | |
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| Half the information on CDs is analogue Sean,I think it is not as bad a picture as you paint....there are some good recording industry people out there...Telarc, Chesky, Naxos, The Mastering Lab....just to name a few of the better known sources of good recordings | |
| What? Cant hear the voices Again I reiterate...these sound tracks work in the movie cinema...the only reason they don't work in a home HT is due to poor quality speakers....believe me I have personal experience with both B&W and Bose systems that made voices very hard t... | |
| Has anyone heard the Rolling Stone Remastered LP'S Hot Rocks is good....it was nicely mastered. Still sounds rather compressed....but that is often how the Stones intended it to sound! Another good recording of the stones was "Jump back". | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Exlibris,Your findings match what Bob Katz widely reports...the DAC is where most subtle differences in digital tend to happen. (Clocking from transport is related but in the end jitter can be controlled at the DAC with appropriate design) | |
| What? Cant hear the voices It is not your age.....this is a common problem with HT in my experience. Much of what you are watching on a DVD was mastered for movie theatres....i.e. for vastly expensive systems with huge dynamic range.....which is obviously why the sound has ... | |
| High Definition CD or HDCD - What is it exactly? If mastering engineers would stop compressing music (to make stuff sound good on boom boxes) then HDCD might be of more value. Unfortunately most recordings are compressed to a point where a regular CD has far more dynamic range than is actually n... | |
| dual subs.....how & where to install? My two cents....place them at the same distance to your listening position as the speakers....with two full range speakers you have a lot of drivers covering the 20 to 90 Hz range (even after filters)Therefore place one on the left of the left spe... | |
| best shippers? Bax just want to make sure that there is someone there when they call to collect or deliver them......businesses are open from 9 to 5 on working days....Bax do not want pick up or delivber to a residence where someone may not be homw all the time.... | |
| Half the information on CDs is analogue Axelfonze,Your point about the recording/mixing/mastering being important is so true. More important than CD vs Vinyl, IMHO.For example, Doug Sax masters were good in the days of vinyl (Sheffield labs) and are even better today with digital....Thi... |