[BC] Re: The death of the CD....

[Dana Puopolo]

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/10/listeningpost_1029

Vinyl is making a comeback, and between that and MP3's, it spells death for
the CD.

I love this quote:

"Portability is no longer any reason to stick with CDs, and neither is audio
quality. Although vinyl purists are ripe for parody, they're right about one
thing: Records can sound better than CDs. Although CDs have a wider dynamic
range, mastering houses are often encouraged to compress the audio on CDs to
make it as loud as possible: It's the so-called loudness war. Since the audio
on vinyl can't be compressed to such extremes, records generally offer a more
nuanced sound."

Hmmm..let's take a medium that can produce 90 db of dynamic range, and SMASH
its audio so badly with multiband processors, peak limiters and clippers that
it sounds like s**t!

Hmmm..where have I seen this done before?  Oh  wait-RADIO!!

But with vinyl, there's only 60 db of range, so we can't destroy its audio as
bad!

Go figure!

-D