HOLY COMPRESSION BATMAN!!!

[HBombToo]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Once you really start getting into it and have a nice stereo. Your source is the most important part. The recording and the component.

I am in absolute agreement with this statement! IMHO when your system exceeds even midphile quality the recording quality becomes apparent.

As I tweaked my 2 channel or even high rez audio system, the more compressed the recording is the further we move into a very "bright" and "tinny" sounding reproduction. My experience in compensating for this is to throw a tube preamp in the mix preferrably with a 6922 type tube.

This is a great thread BTW in which I have fully enjoyed reading.

HBombToo

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
so audio over-compression is the newest in a long line of AT crusades? lemme see
american cars, 1 lb bulk beef, multiblade razors, compression,

what was before that?

Go crap in someone else's thread nOOb...

Kthx.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Hendrix,

to add to that I think a CD has like a dynamic range of 100 db. It seems that these modern recordings only use like 10 of it. your pictures show the dramatic loss in dynamics between the two.

CD theoretically has a dynamic range of 96dB due to the limit of the format - 16bit samples at 44,100 samples per second (each channel).

Remember too with 16 bit sampling each sample can only have a possible 65,536 different levels. Not very precise. 24 bits brings the resolution to 16,777,216 levels (much better) and 32 bits @ 4,294,967,296! :Q

Even with all this dynamic range unfortunately it's seldom closed to being used with pop recordings. As I've said previously it would be great if all labels were released completely uncompressed with super wide dynamic range leaving it up to the consumer to use a compressor. But like most things in society everyone has to suffer.

EDIT: This is what a live performance looks like - no compression.