[Iain Churches[_2_]]

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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Are you saying you think that LP masters should be cut
from analogue tapes?

Digital is the great Satan to these luddites.

Almost without exception, masters are digital these
days.

An apparently little-known truth that many
digital-haters would prefer not to know.

Incorrect.

Actually Iain, you're just disagreeing for the sake of being disagreeable.

No, I was enjoying an interesting discussion with Boon,
until you poked your nose in:-) Your statement above is
incorrect.

People have no objection to the fact that the
original is digital (Most probably don't even know - this
would make an interesting question in a poll)

What they *do* object to, and strongly, is the fact
that so many CDs are poorly mastered, thus obviating
totally the inherent advantages that the format offers.

But that is a general problem Iain, and not one that is restricted to
digital-haters.


Actually, it is not really a problem at all. It is a
phenomenon found only on pop CDs. Record
companies get very few "technical returns" from
which they deduce that the general public are
happy with over-compressed and clipped CDs,
so no such problem exsists:-)

The levels of expectation from the general public
has been declining slowly for many years.
The CD is regarded by many as a throw-away
commodity, to which they listen only a few times.

Mp3 is fast becoming the norm, and it is only
a matter of time before people start to think that
any recording which does not have .mp3
artefacts has "got something wrong with it" !

The small percentage of people that are not happy,
buy vinyl versions if these can be found.

But generally speaking, people either don't
notice, or don't care. When did you last return
a CD with a technical return report, Arny?

Fortunately, classical and jazz recordings are not
subject to the "louder is better" pressure..

Iain