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chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>>For my 14th birthday, I got a CDDA player by Pioneer, fresh 1991 model
>>at the time, with a 20 bit DAC.  I thought it was amazing - until I
>>replaced it with a DVD-Audio/SACD player in 2004.  And before long, I
>>got a DVD-Audio grade sound card for my computer, too.  Primitive DAC
>>chips were *trash*, and *that* is where the myth of vinyl sounding
>>better came from.  
>
>The early Japanese DAC's were trash, but the Phillips DAC's were
>always good.


Intriguing.


>  The bigger problem was bad mastering.  Crack-smoking
>incompetents didn't know that the *fsck* they were doing, initially.
>I would swear that some early CD's were made with the RIAA
>equalization for LP's applied, reducing the bass to nothingness and
>making the highs shill to the point of unlistenable.
>
>I mean, if you're listening to a power trio, like Rush, and you can't
>hardly hear the bass, something went *very* wrong.  How the artists
>allowed their music to be released, in such conditions, is something
>of a mystery, to me.


I had purchased some older Rush on CD, never thought it was bad, but
hearing remasters later of course was better.

-- 
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.