On May 25, 5:16*pm, (hank alrich) wrote:
neumannu47 wrote:
I'm listening to Axis: Bold As Love by Hendrix, and I'm surprised by how
much unintentional or unwanted distortion there is. It has been a LONG
time since I heard the vinyl. Is it distorted, as well? (Obviously I'm
not talking about Hendrix' guitar being distorted.) My CD is probably
one of the first releases, so the distortion may be in the A-D converters.
Wasn't Kramer the recording engineer?
I'm curious why you feel you know from listening to a CD what is
intentional distortion and what is unintentional distortion.
I think you'd have to listen to the vinyl to approach figuring that out.
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Another thing about CD: When I rip mp3s from the CDs the volume is
any where from 96dB and up according to mp3Gain(max value is 105,
default 89). This goes for CDs I bought in the late '80s as well as
CDs from the 2000s - although CDs from less than 10 years ago clock in
at 98-99.5dB in mp3Gain. The older the CD - 1990s or '80s - the
"quiter" they are in level - mp3gain reporting 94-96dB.
Perhaps the CDs are too hot and are distorting the CD player circuitry
and amp stages of people's stereos. I noticed when I regain my CD
rips down to 91dB the dynamic range seems to improve because they're
not pegged up against some "ceiling".
-CC