On 9/28/07, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this product is analogous in many ways to the CD, and it's > > introduction has degraded the standard of eating in much the same way > > digital recording has degraded the standard of music. > > Here I think he's completely out to lunch. CDs don't (IMO) affect the > quality of music in the same way that prepackaged mayonnaise is a pale > shadow of hand made mayonnaise - unless his contention is that > everyone should listen only to "handmade" (aka live) music.
Nope, not only listen to live music. Current digital recording techniques, coupled with current trends and fashions, have conspired to make recordings sound buzzy and lousy, though the medium actually has the capacity to achieve resolutions beyond the effective dynamic range of the human ear. More reading on the most egregious symptom of this issue: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/8821 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1878724.ece http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
