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

[Rich Wood]

------ At 12:39 AM 10/30/2007, Dana  Puopolo wrote: -------

>"Since the audio
>on vinyl can't be compressed to such extremes, records generally offer a more
>nuanced sound."

I guess whoever said this never heard anything produced by Phil 
Spector or Motown.

>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!

The poster boy for that is WPLJ, New York. If the meters on the 
modulation monitors weren't labeled you'd swear they were monitoring 
the power line. The the power probably varies more than the modulation.

The good thing about a CD is that you get out what you put in, unlike 
many codecs where it's gourmet in, garbage out.

Rich