From public anemone Sent Wed, Feb 17th 1999, 15:18
From public anemone Sent Wed, Feb 17th 1999, 15:18
Marc 3 Poirier wrote: > 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 how do you know it's the cd sampling rate that makes these cds sound like shit...it's possible the artist ran the mix through a cheap aural exciter, or the mastering engineer didn't quite know what he was doing, or the pressing plant fucked up, etc...also, cd's can reproduce frequencies that analogue tape cannot...hence if you record some 19khz tone at high volume on digital, it will sound as loud and piercing as it would in real life, whereas if you recorded the same tone to a cassette or reel to reel or vinyl, it would be more muffled and quieter, hence less grating on the ears, because the medium isn't correctly reproducing it... depends a lot on your speakers and the room you're listening in too.