flint wrote:

When CDs hit the market, there was a fear that they would be too
loud and damage speakers and equipment

Ok, ok. So when the CD was first rushed to market (the high-end market)
the homework still hadn't been handed in to be graded. I'll buy that.

(remember the Telarc 1812 Overture with "digital canons'?).

Yes, I do remember that, as a matter of fact. Unfortunately, I never
got to hear it. What were the final results? Did anyone ever report in
as having destroyed their Polks with one of those things? I never found
out about it one way or the other. But, man, were those the days!

Later, someone decided that philisophy was bunk since everyone had
better speakers and electronics now.

Except all the $50G tube-ampers of course.

Once a few CDs came out with peaks at 0dBFS, every was forced to
follow suit or sound quieter. This was also the same period when
they started re-issuing older CDs as remastered.

Lemme guess, this was sometime around 1993/1994, no?

I won't say which CDs, as I do not want to taint anybody's enjoyment
of the
music.

Oh, c'mon. You can tell *me*!

I'll Pink Floyd just lost their shirts 'cuz of me.

Modern LPs are a niche market and the master tapes are very carefully
produced specifically for the LP transfer.

Well, that's good to know because I actually buy a few of those every
now and then - if I like the group well enough.

With all the signal processing available today,
thee LPs sound amazingly better than the old ones.

Hmmm... I personally wouldn't know about that because, while I *open*
them to look at all the pretty pictures in side, I never play them -
'cuz I also buy the CD version as well.

Thanks,

Myke

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