I bought a CD quite recentlyWell, two. One of them was 'Captain' by Idlewild. The other was Buddy Holly's first 'three' (ie 2 plus a compilation his record label pumped out in 1958 to cash in) albums. I was very pleased.
I like CDs. I like being able to choose the quality my music is at, instead of having Apple insist I get a really shit AAC, or these days a reasonable-more-or-less AAC. I like knowing that what came off the mixing desk is what's in the file, not what came off the mixing desk and then went through a couple of filters to chop off low and high frequencies and then went through a vaguely-defined psychoacoustic model to cut out more frequencies and then got encoded at a lower bitrate.
Just a pity people are mixing for MP3 and most likely releasing CDs that were mastered from 320kbs MP3. I hope they're not but if frankly I wouldn't be surprised anymore.
(I like CDs. I like being able to choose the quality my music is at, instead of having Apple insist I get a really shit AAC, or these days a reasonable-more-or-less AAC. I like knowing that what came off the mixing desk is what's in the file, not what came off the mixing desk and then went through a couple of filters to chop off low and high frequencies and then went through a vaguely-defined psychoacoustic model to cut out more frequencies and then got encoded at a lower bitrate.
Just a pity people are mixing for MP3 and most likely releasing CDs that were mastered from 320kbs MP3. I hope they're not but if frankly I wouldn't be surprised anymore.
boris the spider,
Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:07,
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Yes, couldn't agree more.I hate the fact that the mp3s I purchase are a more paler version of the originals.
Vinyl for the victory
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Michael Ellis contributes nothing,
Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:10,
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I more or less missed vinylPlayed a lot of my parents when I was growing up and made sure my first stereo had a record player and... never bought a record. I'm a product of my times...
Dynamic range on CD is actually significantly greater than that of vinyl. (Which is obviously why mastering engineers enjoy compression the motherfucking shit out of music these days, to the point where putting it on vinyl would make the needle fly out of the groove.) I like that and it makes up for any disadvantage you might see in the fact that it's still digital.
/Can't hear anything wrong at all with CD quality sound blog. (Come to that, on my equipment my ~200kbs MP3s sound absolutely fine too -- that's above most people's transparency limit which I think is roughly 150kbs for MP3, and certainly above mine. But I like to make that choice myself, rather than have to reencode a 320kbs (or lower) MP3 and immediately entertain myself losing quality as a result.)
(Dynamic range on CD is actually significantly greater than that of vinyl. (Which is obviously why mastering engineers enjoy compression the motherfucking shit out of music these days, to the point where putting it on vinyl would make the needle fly out of the groove.) I like that and it makes up for any disadvantage you might see in the fact that it's still digital.
/Can't hear anything wrong at all with CD quality sound blog. (Come to that, on my equipment my ~200kbs MP3s sound absolutely fine too -- that's above most people's transparency limit which I think is roughly 150kbs for MP3, and certainly above mine. But I like to make that choice myself, rather than have to reencode a 320kbs (or lower) MP3 and immediately entertain myself losing quality as a result.)
boris the spider,
Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:14,
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I like my CDsmainly cos of having the real thing and not some intangible file I might delete by accident
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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:17,
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This too :)And the people who still put attention into the sleeve notes.
I thought I'd more or less stop buying them a few years back when I moved across here and had to rip all my CDs because there was no way I was lugging hundreds of them around the continent. Instead I think I've bought 50 or so in the last three years. Well, maybe 30.
(I thought I'd more or less stop buying them a few years back when I moved across here and had to rip all my CDs because there was no way I was lugging hundreds of them around the continent. Instead I think I've bought 50 or so in the last three years. Well, maybe 30.
boris the spider,
Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:19,
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