Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site moncol.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!petsd!moncol!ben From: ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: how about this? Message-ID: <149@moncol.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 09:37:40 EST Article-I.D.: moncol.149 Posted: Thu Jan 3 09:37:40 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:53:17 EST References: <232@olivee.UUCP> Organization: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 07764 Lines: 29 >With the advent of CDs, ever notice that the quality >of most (if not all) vinyl disks have steadily decreased. > >I also wonder if they also have thought of the idea >of mixing vinyl recordings a bit to the bland side in >order to make even the bad CDs seem fantastic. I have found just the opposite to be true. With the exception of true digital recordings (such as Joe Jackson's Body and Soul), I generally have found that much greater care has been taken with the LP than with the CD. I recently compared my CD version of Eye of the Storm, the latest release by ex-Supertramp member Roger Hodgeson, with a fresh copy of the LP that a friend had bought. The LP had much lower background noise, and a slightly brighter sound. My guess is that when record companies release both the LP and CD simultaneously, they send the original tape to be mastered on vinyl, and a dub of the master to Japan to be mastered on CD. If this is indeed the case, the CD consumer, who is spending roughly twice as much money as the LP customer for 'better sound', is being cheated out of his money's worth. And nothing will slow the growth of compact disc technology more than inferior CD's!! Ben Broder ..vax135!petsd!moncol!ben