XPost: rec.music.gdead, sci.electronics.design   
   From: ksi@koi8.net   
      
   In sci.electronics.design geoff  wrote:   
   > David wrote:   
   >> "geoff"  wrote in message   
   >>>> Yet another person that hasn't listened to a recent release on vinyl   
   >>>> and compared it to the same release on CD then?   
   >>>> You'd be eating your words if you had.  For some reason the sound   
   >>>> engineers that mix vinyl, in general, don't compress the hell out of   
   >>>> the dynamic range like they do CD.   
   >>>   
   >>> Are you suggesting that those same engineers for some bizarre reason   
   >>> over-compress the CD releases  of that same material? Then they are   
   >>> incompetent !   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Indeed they do and it's not incompetence, it's marketing   
   >> pressure......'Loud is good' and all that bollox.   
   >> The majority of people that buy digital music formats play it as   
   >> background music or in cars or on Ipods etc. so dynamic range is   
   >> wasted on them. The majority of people that still buy vinyl, sit down and   
   >> listen to   
   >> it. Yes CD could be much better than vinyl but in reallity because of the   
   >> mastering, it's not.   
   >   
   > Well the answer is to record the vinyl onto CD and play  it back from there   
   > !   
   >   
   > The different mastering  (and noise, distortion, wow, flutter, limited   
   > frequency and dynamic response, etc) will all be faithfully reproduced !   
      
   That is exactly what some of us, including myself, are doing. As a matter of   
   fact it is not just copying to a CD -- they are digitized in 24/96 and that   
   digitized material is saved and listened to if conditions permit. For   
   everyday use (such as plaing it in one's car or whatever) that material is   
   downsampled to 16/44 and put on CDs.   
      
   And I betcha they sound light ages better than commercial CDs with the same   
   material.   
      
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