Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utah-gr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!mcnc!philabs!pwa-b!utah-gr!thomas From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: New CD owner is disappointed Message-ID: <1192@utah-gr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 17:40:39 EDT Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1192 Posted: Fri Sep 28 17:40:39 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Oct-84 04:24:17 EDT Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept Lines: 19 cjy@charm.UUCP (Charles J. Yashinovitz) writes: > >Last week I became a New CD owner. I am a little disappointed. >I hear noise very similar to tape hiss between tracks on popular disks >and during the quite passages on a classical disk.The noise is not >exceptionally loud, but I can still hear it. I am convinced the source >of the hiss is not my amplifier because if I hit the "STOP" button on >the CD player, the noise stops. > > > Charlie Yashinovitz > charm!cjy What you are probably hearing is "ambient" noise. The CD is so quiet as a medium that you can hear the noise of people breathing, etc. Sit in a "quiet" auditorium sometime, you'll be surprised how noisy it really is. =Spencer