[Audio Empire]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:08:45 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):

"Audio Empire" wrote in message

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 06:09:30 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):

I see a misidentification of a problem that we all agree
exists. Digital recordings on occasion fail to sound
good simply because they are accurate reproducers of
mediocre technical work.

I wish that were true.

It's truth is proven fact.

The fact is that most CD releases
do not represent, accurately, the information that is on
the master tape.

It takes considerable naivate about the normal production process to
consider that to be a technical flaw.

Who said it was a "technical flaw"?

Master tapes very frequently are not commerically acceptable when they are
accurate representations of the master tape. That's why mastering engineers
are still a valuable resource.

Whatever the reason, the reality is that commercial CD rarely, if ever, lives
up to its potential in terms of sound quality.

Commerical recordings must satisfy a large number of listeners to be good
commercial products. Musical recordings often have excess dynamics and
often contain excess power at the low end of the audible spectrum to sound
acceptable in the limited environments that most consumers listen to them
in.

That's true. But what it means is that the CD buyer is not getting what CD is
capable of. I'm glad we agree on this point.

[Arny Krueger]

"Audio Empire" wrote in message

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:08:45 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):

"Audio Empire" wrote in
message
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 06:09:30 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):

I see a misidentification of a problem that we all
agree exists. Digital recordings on occasion fail to
sound good simply because they are accurate
reproducers of mediocre technical work.

I wish that were true.

It's truth is proven fact.

The fact is that most CD releases
do not represent, accurately, the information that is on
the master tape.

It takes considerable naivate about the normal
production process to consider that to be a technical
flaw.

Who said it was a "technical flaw"?

Master tapes very frequently are not commerically
acceptable when they are accurate representations of the
master tape. That's why mastering engineers are still a
valuable resource.

Whatever the reason, the reality is that commercial CD
rarely, if ever, lives up to its potential in terms of
sound quality.

It's true. Due to the sfar more audibly significant audible failings in the
rest of the audio chain, particularly rooms and transducers, CD playback
never lives up to its potential for excellent sound quality.

[Audio Empire]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 07:20:43 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):

"Audio Empire" wrote in message

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:08:45 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):

"Audio Empire" wrote in
message
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 06:09:30 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):

I see a misidentification of a problem that we all
agree exists. Digital recordings on occasion fail to
sound good simply because they are accurate
reproducers of mediocre technical work.

I wish that were true.

It's truth is proven fact.

The fact is that most CD releases
do not represent, accurately, the information that is on
the master tape.

It takes considerable naivate about the normal
production process to consider that to be a technical
flaw.

Who said it was a "technical flaw"?

Master tapes very frequently are not commerically
acceptable when they are accurate representations of the
master tape. That's why mastering engineers are still a
valuable resource.

Whatever the reason, the reality is that commercial CD
rarely, if ever, lives up to its potential in terms of
sound quality.

It's true. Due to the sfar more audibly significant audible failings in the
rest of the audio chain, particularly rooms and transducers, CD playback
never lives up to its potential for excellent sound quality.



Sorry, Arny, you're putting words in my mouth (or should I say keyboard). I
said that commercial CDs do not have the information on them that would make
them sound as good as what the medium itself is capable. I said nothing about
limitations "downstream" of the CD playback itself.