Re: Audiophilia (was Re: Do Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?)

chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

For my 14th birthday, I got a CDDA player by Pioneer, fresh 1991 model
at the time, with a 20 bit DAC.  I thought it was amazing - until I
replaced it with a DVD-Audio/SACD player in 2004.  And before long, I
got a DVD-Audio grade sound card for my computer, too.  Primitive DAC
chips were *trash*, and *that* is where the myth of vinyl sounding
better came from. 

>
The early Japanese DAC's were trash, but the Phillips DAC's were
always good.

Intriguing.

 The bigger problem was bad mastering.  Crack-smoking
incompetents didn't know that the *fsck* they were doing, initially.
I would swear that some early CD's were made with the RIAA
equalization for LP's applied, reducing the bass to nothingness and
making the highs shill to the point of unlistenable.
>
I mean, if you're listening to a power trio, like Rush, and you can't
hardly hear the bass, something went *very* wrong.  How the artists
allowed their music to be released, in such conditions, is something
of a mystery, to me.

I had purchased some older Rush on CD, never thought it was bad, but
hearing remasters later of course was better.

--
Joel W. Crump

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Section 1.

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