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You can't get CDs anywhere near a easily as one could 22 years ago. All the old music stores I used to go to are closed. The big chains are gone. The small i
by bcrl 6y ago
You can't get CDs anywhere near a easily as one could 22 years ago. All the old music stores I used to go to are closed. The big chains are gone. The small indie stores are all gone. Some of the boutique websites still exist, but it has been more than 10 years since I purchased a real physical CD.
One thing I do miss is that CDs are mastered far better than anything on iTunes or YouTube is these days. Modern music is compressed (not MP3 artifacts, but flattening of dynamic range) in a way that wasn't common back then. Algorithmic remastering of music by all the big websites is overdone in my opinion.
- wishinghand 6y agoIf you're buying lossless music files, it's not a matter of CDs sounding better. The audio compression you're hearing is a result of the loudness wars and pop music trends.
- runamok 6y agoI've heard that was done to CDs as well. E.g. people psychologically prefer louder music so mastering practices have done this at the expense of dynamic range. This kind of explains it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war http://georgegraham.com/compress.html http://georgegraham.com/compress.html