I would assume he's referring to the fact that CD's are often mastered with heavy compression, and so while they often sound loud and upfront as all getout, they often have a noticeable lack of dynamics compared to vinyl -- they don't "pop" like well-cut vinyl does. That's something you only really notice in a club setting...I normally think of "hot" as you guys do, but dynamics make the distinction between good hot and bad hot for me.
Any lover of recording and music should have love for all or at least most formats. Tape is great, vinyl is great, cd is great, etc. There's no such thing as better unless you solely focus on the science of audio (fidelity and technical specs etc)...There's no such thing as an objective "better" when there is so much subjective and artistic involved in making and recording music. There are only different methods which may or may not represent more accurately what the artist intended On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Martin Dust <mar...@dustscience.com> wrote: > > On 10 Sep 2009, at 15:40, Ravinder S Mann wrote: > >> Wouldnt boosting all the frequencies make it sound . . . well I cant >> describe it but overdriven. I play about with the EQ on my stereo as >> we all do and that set up usually sounds rubbish. If anything I drop >> out the mid section a bit, boost the tops a bit and boost the bass a >> little more than the tops. Bearing in mind im doing this in a home set >> up but even though some Senn HD25 a 'hotter' EQ setting would not >> sound right. Maybe he is trying to gett the same kind of dynamic ommpf >> as vinyl from a CD player. >> >> Ravinder. > > It's hard to answer Ravi as he only says it in passing, so much depends on > "all the factors" to be able to explain and usually it's the other way > around in my limited experience Vinyl<CD. > > m > > >
