OK got that off my chest. I was thinking of just this issue as I was driving to work today and listening to a very bad recording of very good singer, and thinking of many other good performances I have that I can barely listen to thanks to the recording companies.
The irony is that in many cases I only know about how good the performers are from hearing them on Austin City Limits, which is far from a Hi Fi experience. But at least they sound like humans. I've been going through the book "Get Better Sound". The author describes his findings from analysing CDs. He has found some that have as little as 10 dB of dynamic range. It's mostly for the radio, which turns into sales. And people fall for the artifical sound... at first. Just look at how many Bose systems, with their enhanced sound, get bought. Any body remember the old ad I think it was by ADS run that showed guy sitting in rumpled bed holding his head in regret with a speaker sitting in front of him with the caption something like "will hate yourself in the morning"? -- regalma1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ regalma1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6658 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55737 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
