[Harry Lavo]

"bob" wrote in message
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On Jan 25, 10:15=A0am, Audio Empire wrote:

I'm suspecting
that a lot of this audiophile interest =A0in high-resolution downloads
ma=
y be
the result of dissatisfaction with the quality of commercial CDs. If so,
=
then
that interest may be misplaced. IOW, these dissatisfied listeners
(includ=
ing
me) may be blaming CD for something of which it is NOT guilty; I.E.
being=
a
low-resolution medium when in reality, it's the production practices of
t=
he
record companies that are causing folks to long for higher resolution
recordings, not the inherent CAPABILITIES of the medium.

And what a shame it is that the high-end community has spent the
better part of three decades wailing about the inadequacies of CD as a
medium, rather than about the quality of the recordings.

bob

Well, the whole interesting question to me is: why isn't the compression (or
lack thereof) part of the delivery vehicle, rather than the medium itself.
In other words, if car audio requires compression for audibility, then why
hasn't that been a standard part of car electronics for the last twenty
years.....why did the music companies take on that burden, rather than
preparing the best sounding music they could and letting it be "adjusted"
(or not) according to the listening circumstances. Certainly blanket
compression has always been relatively simple to achieve (look at the "night
mode" that has been built into almost all tvs/dvd and blueray players, etc
for the last decade.

Seems to me that with a little foresight and cooperation this mess could
have been avoided. And still could be.