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One of my biggest disappointments in life was buying CD after CD that sounded absolutely muddy compared to my old vinyl. At first I thought they were just hiri
by tsotha 14y ago
One of my biggest disappointments in life was buying CD after CD that sounded absolutely muddy compared to my old vinyl. At first I thought they were just hiring, you know, lumberjacks to do the transfers. I'm still floored that was done on purpose.
- noonespecial 14y agoI had the same experience. For me it manifested as "this sounds louder, but I can't crank it up anymore". With a vinyl, I used to be able to just crank that volume dial into the stratosphere and rock out, the CD just turned into a sonic fog bank that tired you out trying to listen to when you tried to turn it up.
- mechanical_fish 14y agoSometimes you can fix this with better equipment (although the fact that your vinyl worked fine suggests that your equipment works fine). But, yeah, it is all kinds of frustrating to discover that the band you like has no listenable recordings. There's stuff that literally just needs to be played in the car.
- noonespecial 14y agoI've got the same Cerwin Vega's and Marantz amp that I (ahem my parents... thanks dad) had in the 80's. I've tried a couple different CD players. The wakeup call came when I converted my vinyl to CD myself with nothing but the built-in ADC on my Mac and it still sounded better than the commercial release.