[Laurence Payne]

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:21:31 -0700, wrote:

If you'd read my question and follow-up comments you'd have noticed
I don't want compression. I'm only talking about tweaks that make it
more seamless to blend one track into another so that if someone
likeminded was listening they wouldn't be itching to tickle the tone
controls. I'm sure you would hear an immediate difference in clarity
between some dull early CDs from the mid 80s and later remasters, and
then something as smooth as Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence and then
as harsh as a U2 track I can't remember the name of, then some
pounding R&B tracks, etc etc etc.
Each one doesn't sound too bad in isolation, when the ear has had time
to relax in between, but leap from one to another and it's
immediately apparent if you're anywhere near as good at hearing as you
think you are.


Your question wasn't ridiculous. But you rattled the monkey-cage and
you won't stop them jumping up and down now :-)

Leave it a bit, and come back with a question about e.g. a box of tape
copies (they'll LIKE it being about tape :-) all dubbed by different
people on different equipment, and how best to renovate them. Then
you'll maybe get some useful answers.

Actually, better not make it tape. They'll only start telling you to
buy 20 different playback machines and have orgasms over Nak Dragons
:-)