On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:59:08 -0500, Lord Hasenpfeffer
wrote:

I have no disagreement with you here about the nature of the music
itself. My initial argument was that "normalize" has enabled me to
frequently produce 128KBps MP3s which sound better to my ears and brain
than do the original source CDs from which the original WAVs were
ripped. That in and of itself is the point I'm *trying* to prove by all
of this. Everyone keeps telling me I'm full of **** when I say this and
I know that I am not!

No, everyone keeps telling you that you're full of **** because you
claim to have 'whopped the ass of MFSL', when all you have done is
shove the signal through a meatgrinder that makes it sound 'better' to
*you*. Not 'better' in any absolute sense, just the way *you* like it.


The point is you are changing the artists work.

No, I'm changing the work of Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab - which I
personally believe should *not* be possible. I paid them in exchange
for something I should not be able to improve on my own - yet that is in
no way what I received - by any stretch of the imagination.

HTF do you know? Do you have access to the original master tapes? Do
you understand what MFSL was set up to *do*?

And my experience is such that I have learned that a *majority* of the
other standard, commercial compact discs within my personal collection
are mastered just as horribly as my MFSL Ultradisc II version of "Dark
Side". And for this I am *thankful* to have "normalize" on my side. It
has truly proven to be a "magic bullet" in my arsenal for improving the
sound of my CDs before I encode them to MP3.

If that's what floats *your* boat, then fine. Just don't give us all
this crap about how you have produced a 'superior' sound with your
scrunched and squeezed multi-processed MP3..................

They sold to me (and obviously an untold number of other people) a
****ty WAV on a gold-plated disc at a very high price. Have you a
better term for this than I?

The closest possible approach to the original master tape.........

Y'know, I'd really like to believe you but at this point without no
reasonable explanation from someone who was actually on the MFSL staff
at the time this disc was produced, I simply cannot. Their CD sounds
like mud. After "normalizing" it to -10dBFS, however, I have made it
"come alive" on my desktop.

Um, I'm not sure that produce something that sounds good and loud on
desktop speakers was entirely the intention of the MFSL staff......
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering