[Scott Dorsey]

Richard Crowley wrote:
"Scott Dorsey" wrote ...
It's mostly hype, yes. The main advantage to the LP is that it's harder
to do abusive processing and get away with it. You can clip the hell out
of a CD to make it sound louder, but if you try and do the same thing to
an LP pressing you wind up with a disc that is quieter rather than louder
because you can't cut the clipped waveform at anything approaching
reasonable
excursions. So often the LP will wind up sounding phenomenally better
than
the CD pressing done at the same time. But it's not because the LP sounds
particularly good, it's because the CD sounds particularly bad.

Maybe there's a new marketing label needed here...
"LP Mastered" (vs. CD Mastered)

Presumably a CD that has been "LP Mastered" would have the
best of both worlds.

It would have no bass imaging, though! The sad part is although there is
a lot of abusive stuff you can't do on LP, there's a lot of good stuff you
can't do either.
--scott


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