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

[Glen Kippel]

On 10/29/07, Dana Puopolo <dpuopolo at usa.net> wrote:
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!

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Quite a few years ago, Rupert Neve was being interviewed (by db Magazine,
IIRC) and he said that he could sit back and relax by listening to LPs, but
CDs made him feel "edgy."  The extrapolation of that leads to the conclusion
that part of society's problems with violence may be due to digital audio.
Neve did say in an article several years later that he didn't have a problem
with 24/96 digital.  It's the sample rate that does it.  So, are MP3s good
for you?

Some people say that being exposed to the flickering light from fluorescent
lighting is also detrimental to health.