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,
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