Re: Undecoded Dolby A: Why People Complain That Digital Sounds Harsh
Reply #22 – 2018-07-10 08:46:19
Not in physical reality, only in vinylphile fantasy world. 99% of my CDs sound worlds better than vinyl across all genres. Something is either terribly amiss with your system/music choices or you just like the sound of vinyl, which is nothing like physical reality. IOW, a vinylphile. Same tired, invalid, old arguments from the echo chamber. Maybe you're right. Sound production is quite subjective and maybe you like what I dislike and vice versa. I actually think dsd and tape sounds better, when available. In my opinion, CD is the media that destroyed the craftmanship of music production, even if there's nothing wrong with the format. Let's for the sake of argument say that it's true that "CD is the media that destroyed the craftmanship of music production", then as you also hint at, it's really the choices being made in the studio by artists, producers and engineers that have destroyed music - not the media itself. And I'm with you to a large extent. Too much music has been overly compressed or made excessively bright - but again, it's not the format. I think the music world might have been better off if digital dynamic range compression had never been invented. As far as I know blind tests have already been conducted between DSD and PCM and people couldn't hear a difference, despite the fact that DSD seems to be a broken format according to a paper published by Stanley Lipshitz and James Vanderkooy, which just shows us how forgiving our ears really are. But yes, I'm sure that certain/many CDs actually have had some problems during the digitization proces. J.J. (James Johnston) also spoke about this at one point.