On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:07:21PM -0600, Brent Busby wrote: > It seems that with CD's, you're cursed one way or another nomatter what > era they come from. In the 80's CD's, you have the gritty metallic > sound that comes from inappropriate EQ that was mentioned, If that were the real problem then applying the inverse EQ would solve it (and you'd gain some S/N ratio as well). Try it and you'll find it doesn't work that way. > or sometimes from bad AD conversion. That was surely a problem in those days, in particular at lower levels. > (They used to do everything in 16-bit a lot > then, end-to-end, no 24-bit for more processing > headroom like now.) Which actually is no problem in the hands of someone who knows what he's doing. It just allows less amateurism. And a typical listener's available dynamic range is a fraction of what 16-bit can provide. 'Management' fucking up the sound by prescribing some mandatory processing is nothing new for the CD era, it existed all through the LP times as well. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
