From Kent Williams Sent Tue, Feb 16th 1999, 23:13
From Kent Williams Sent Tue, Feb 16th 1999, 23:13
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Marc 3 Poirier wrote: > > I can't believe how spoiled people are by CD Audio that they feel like > > they need 24bit, 96khz audio. I was 25 before I bought my first CD > > player and CDs. Some of the people on this mailing list were born after > > the introduction of the CD! > > > > Sure, it's nice to have that headroom both in frequency and dynamics, but > > that's a technical thing having to do with music production, not with > > listening pleasure. > > I like all of the music that I like, but sometimes the high frequencies > on certain CDs hurt my ears. It certainly depends a lot on the CD player > as well (with the digital to analogue converters in it), & since I got this > splendid new CD player about a year ago, I don't have the problem as often > any more, but I still do with some CDs. & they hurt in this way unique to > inadequate digital audio, something that never happens with good quality > all-analogue recordings. I would like to see a higher standard sampling > rate for digital audio, & bit rate, too. That's all, bye. > Well listening to CD's shouldn't hurt anyway. That's the fault of the mastering engineer.