On 2/03/2017 1:40 AM, John Williamson wrote:
On 01/03/2017 14:04, wrote:
jjaj wrote: "How can someone make such a wide claim, unless they have
every CD that was published? I ask, why do people blast music in cars?
There
has to be a reason. I returned my very first CD player, when Elton
John was full of tape hiss noise (that was an "early" one). Certainly,
not a convincing
way to accelerate CD sales. "
You returned the machine?? Or just the Elton John disc?
I, for one, own many early CDs, and unless your treble
EQ is turned up substantially, such tape hiss is not such
the big deal you make it out to be.
Not if your hearing has rolled it off already. I remember the disk I own
which was the worst offender and once drove me crazy, no longer does. I
remember when I was 20 complaining to a HiFi shop demonstrator that the
music he was using was full of hiss. He couldn't hear it, but I sure
could. I remember building my own single ended noise reduction system
back then because so much of what you could buy was full of noise. Fast
forward a few decades and sadly I now know why those old guys had no
idea of the amount of hiss on those records. :-(
Trevor.