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From: karn@mouton.UUCP
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Subject: Re: New CD owner is disappointed
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 18:50:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 18:50:59 1984
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"Digital Recording" doesn't mean that a disc will be ABSOLUTELY noise free;
the signal out can be no better than the signal in.  Popular CDs are often
made from analog master tapes; I agree, this is a rotten practice, but you
have to admit that the CD is still better than an LP of the same album.

Even with digital masters, there are plenty of noise sources: microphone
preamps, room noise, analog mixer panels, etc.  I bet that if you actually
MEASURED the levels of noise you're seeing on your CDs and compared them
against peak output, you'd find that the CD is the first mass recording
medium which even allows you to hear these other noise sources by not covering
them up with its own media noise.

Phil Karn