XPost: rec.music.gdead, sci.electronics.design   
   From: nobody@but.us.chickens   
      
   On 2/27/2011 9:10 AM Randy Yates spake thus:   
      
   > On 02/27/2011 12:04 AM, MalcolmO wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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!   
   >   
   > I thought it may be interesting to suggest some pre-digital era albums that   
   > were of better source quality than much of what gets put into 1's and 0's   
   > these days.   
   >   
   > How about, "Year of the Cat", by Al Stewart?   
      
   I see you, and raise you: John McLaughlin/One Truth Band's "Electric   
   Dreams", @1979. (Completely analog, so far as I can tell.)   
      
      
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