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