Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mouton.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mouton!karn From: karn@mouton.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: New CD owner is disappointed Message-ID: <160@mouton.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 18:50:59 EDT Article-I.D.: mouton.160 Posted: Mon Sep 24 18:50:59 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 07:20:11 EDT References: <502@charm.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc Lines: 13 "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