There may be potentially better sources for playing music, but the CD isn't used the way it was used before. Listen to a Pink Floyd album and hear differences between loud parts and soft parts, the different instruments clearly seperated, it just sounds great and uses the dynamic range of a CD very well. Now listen to a CD for sale in the store right now (or RHCP's Californication for that matter). You wil not only hear one solid block of -loud- sound, there's a chance you will hear a freakload of clipping too. Things that should 'whoop out' in the mix (kick drums) can't because of the insane compression and squishing everything together for the sake of loudness.
Until people stop clipping the audio and making stuff too frigging loud (NO! it won't be louder on the radio, it WON'T sound better! Some albums are quite unhearable for the sake of loudness), I won't be buying CD's. The only exception is the last Iron Maiden. It didn't had any mastering, just straight out of the mixing bord with no EQ'ing and other stuff. The album has a perfect wave form (no clipping at -all-), like it should.
There is a reason for some people to claim vinyl sounds better. I don't really 'choose' a system or something like that, i'm pretty neutral and no 'audiphile' spending enormous of money on speaker cables 'cause they 'sound better'.
CD's are mastered extremely bad these days. CD's can have a pretty huge dynamic range. Kickdrums/snare drums and the like should 'peak out' like they are supposed to do. The result? A very good sounding album, every instrument seperated and hearable, bass lines not sinking away in the rest of the music.
Nowadays it's common business to make records EXTREMELY LOUD with -no- dynamics whatsover. It's just a huge wall of sound. It sounds just -bad- (listen to RHCP's Californication), loud and CD's are clipping constantly. However, the vinyl releases of these albums sound pretty good because vinyl just can't get ruined that way and the master tapes are just sounding ok.
I can definitely agree with this. It is already known that fatty acids (fish oil) do good stuff for a lot of things. Not only autism, it can help for dyslectic, depressive and people with ADHD too. It doesn't 'cure' them however. People without those problems will benefit from it too (It's good for nails, hair and probably some more stuff).
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There may be potentially better sources for playing music, but the CD isn't used the way it was used before. Listen to a Pink Floyd album and hear differences between loud parts and soft parts, the different instruments clearly seperated, it just sounds great and uses the dynamic range of a CD very well. Now listen to a CD for sale in the store right now (or RHCP's Californication for that matter). You wil not only hear one solid block of -loud- sound, there's a chance you will hear a freakload of clipping too. Things that should 'whoop out' in the mix (kick drums) can't because of the insane compression and squishing everything together for the sake of loudness. Until people stop clipping the audio and making stuff too frigging loud (NO! it won't be louder on the radio, it WON'T sound better! Some albums are quite unhearable for the sake of loudness), I won't be buying CD's. The only exception is the last Iron Maiden. It didn't had any mastering, just straight out of the mixing bord with no EQ'ing and other stuff. The album has a perfect wave form (no clipping at -all-), like it should.
I hope they took the MP3's from the same master as the vinyls. Will make some audiophiles happy since both actually will -do- sound good.
There is a reason for some people to claim vinyl sounds better. I don't really 'choose' a system or something like that, i'm pretty neutral and no 'audiphile' spending enormous of money on speaker cables 'cause they 'sound better'.
CD's are mastered extremely bad these days. CD's can have a pretty huge dynamic range. Kickdrums/snare drums and the like should 'peak out' like they are supposed to do. The result? A very good sounding album, every instrument seperated and hearable, bass lines not sinking away in the rest of the music.
Nowadays it's common business to make records EXTREMELY LOUD with -no- dynamics whatsover. It's just a huge wall of sound. It sounds just -bad- (listen to RHCP's Californication), loud and CD's are clipping constantly. However, the vinyl releases of these albums sound pretty good because vinyl just can't get ruined that way and the master tapes are just sounding ok.
Just some links describing this problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_War
http://brianstagg.co.uk/p_t_a_clipressed/
http://one.fsphost.com/roiotrade/loud.html
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=103702
I can definitely agree with this. It is already known that fatty acids (fish oil) do good stuff for a lot of things. Not only autism, it can help for dyslectic, depressive and people with ADHD too. It doesn't 'cure' them however. People without those problems will benefit from it too (It's good for nails, hair and probably some more stuff).