usc95 wrote: > I have never understood the resurgence of vinyl and the insistence of > those who swear it sounds better. Perhaps my limited budget for gear > will forever condemn me to enjoying digital music and missing the > superior pops and hiss of my youth but I don't plan on buying back in > and will have to make do with my beloved squeezebox and digital music. > I found the following article an interesting read and thought some of > you might as well: > http://www.laweekly.com/music/why-cds-may-actually-sound-better-than-vinyl-5352162
Thanks for the link! A very informative article. Julf wrote: > And for an example of a company really getting it wrong, how about Neil > Young and his Pono claiming that dynamic compression and the loudness > wars are caused by mp3? Neil Young should know better. Dynamic range compression has been around a lot longer than digital audio and the mp3 format. Dynamic range compression has been used in radio broadcasting since at the 1960s, if not before that. Dynamic range compression is used to make the quieter passages louder since when one is listening to the radio in a car the quiet passages can often sound like "dead air" and "dead air" in radio means death, i.e. that the listener will just change to another radio station. The big difference between the dynamic range compression that was used by radio stations and the the dynamic range compression in use today is that in the old days the radio stations did the compressing (of an uncompressed recording) whereas today the recording comes with dynamic range compression already applied and once applied there is no way to uncompress and restore the original dynamic range of the recording. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103078 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
