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Originally Posted by imcarthur
... as long as you start with a good quality CD but that takes superior recording, production, engineering, as well as the performance. A tall order I know.
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Originally Posted by WolfeMacleod
. It's one of the methods that guitar players use to create amazing tracks. I don't think it's used much any more though...at least, current music doesn't sound like it.
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I think this is part of why MP3s are so accepted. A lot of new music at relatively high volume level, even on CD through a great system, kills my ears. Stuff recorded in the 80s, early 90s is almost universally better. Older stuff can be great too, depending on the quality of the remaster, vinyl works better than CD in a lot of those cases.
An example given was an old U2 CD vs. a newer Greatest Hits CD with a couple of the same songs. I tried it out, the old discs stuff was good to 100db+, the new stuff hurts in the 90s.
I don't know that compression hurts crap as much as good recordings.
Search for the old thread on dynamic range sometime, even the remasters are sometimes worse.
Had a friend who's dad had some stuff on reel to reel, that was awesome.