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    Late 70's Audio Tech: Has the Sound Really Improved?

    If you have a decent PC system or your PC connected to your main system, crank this puppy up.

    Always been a Cars fan. So, maybe i'm a bit biased.

    But, i think this is one of the best sounding videos you'll find on youtube. I could break stuff with this.

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    Re: Late 70's Audio Tech: Has the Sound Really Improved?

    I think tech has improved. But much of it is spent on making mediocre acts sound better.
    If the music's not there tech can't put it there.
    As far as recording, I have 192 kHz gear. I'm not gonna trade it for tape. But CD's are downsampled to 44.1 kHz, basically lossy compression of the file. Much detail is lost.
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    Re: Late 70's Audio Tech: Has the Sound Really Improved?

    you jerks, now i have to buy all my favorite albums all over again.

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    Re: Late 70's Audio Tech: Has the Sound Really Improved?

    so what DAC are you using? i have a nice Sony blu ray player that has a great output. i guess i could just burn dvd audio discs in a pinch. Regular Cds sound really good. but,,, now i have to find 24/192 files.
    could i run through my behringer ultra curve?
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    Re: Late 70's Audio Tech: Has the Sound Really Improved?

    Indeed!

    Yeah, BD and especially 4K, movie soundtracks can be incredible, though limited to +20 dB and there's a few pipe organ symphony CDs with [clipped] +30 dB [that's 1 kW less speaker system efficiency], but based on numerous folks at the DIY audio testing how much power they use combined with some pros's comments WRT current mix downs, most music is so compressed there's only barely audible dynamics [<5 dB], so basically FM radio at best, i.e. no way to tell if it's 'live or is it Memorex'.

    Although, I've been told that a surprising number of live events is just as compressed, so for other than 'loud', not much point musically related to suffer the crowds, cost, etc..

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    Re: Late 70's Audio Tech: Has the Sound Really Improved?

    Quote Originally Posted by GM View Post
    Indeed!

    Yeah, BD and especially 4K, movie soundtracks can be incredible, though limited to +20 dB and there's a few pipe organ symphony CDs with [clipped] +30 dB [that's 1 kW less speaker system efficiency], but based on numerous folks at the DIY audio testing how much power they use combined with some pros's comments WRT current mix downs, most music is so compressed there's only barely audible dynamics [<5 dB], so basically FM radio at best, i.e. no way to tell if it's 'live or is it Memorex'.

    Although, I've been told that a surprising number of live events is just as compressed, so for other than 'loud', not much point musically related to suffer the crowds, cost, etc..

    GM

    PS: my continuing thanks to the now much maligned Cerwin Vega circa '74 for my sig line [still got the sticker somewhere].

    I dunno, people get mad at me if I get too loud, even if I've had a bath.
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    Re: Late 70's Audio Tech: Has the Sound Really Improved?

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