XPost: rec.music.gdead, sci.electronics.design   
   From: MalcolmO@domain.invalid   
      
   Hear, hear!   
      
   Today people get recording contracts based on how photogenic they are.   
   Machines sing them into tune. AND THEN   
      
   > Most   
   > commercial recordings today are released in a form which is far less   
   > than "16-bit" in quality - they have been deliberately compressed   
   > during the mastering process to sound "louder".  They've been quashed,   
   > pummeled, clipped, gain-ridden, smelched, and squeezed down into a   
   > tiny dynamic range.   
      
   And they wonder why we don't buy records!   
   --   
   Malcolm   
   "They should know they're the Grateful Dead now." -- Phil   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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