{"id":9829,"date":"2006-11-26T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T07:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taggedtalk.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2006-11-26T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T07:29:35","slug":"why-cds-sound-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9829-why-cds-sound-bad.html","title":{"rendered":"Why CDs sound bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Turnbull has done a <a href=\"http:\/\/community.wvu.edu\/~ast002\/journal.html\" target=\"_blank\">nicely illustrated post<\/a> on why today&#8217;s CDs often sound worse than those from 15 years ago. The problem is that most pop\/rock CDs are engineered to sound loud at the expense of the natural dynamics of the music.<\/p>\n<p>The hi-fi industry has wasted an enormous amount of effort on DVDA and SACD instead of fixing this more fundamental problem which spoils our enjoyment of music.<\/p>\n<p>There is some discussion of the problem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevehoffman.tv\/forums\/showthread.php?t=97420\">here<\/a> as well as in other posts on Steve Hoffman&#8217;s forum, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevehoffman.tv\/forums\/showthread.php?t=92771\" target=\"_blank\">this thread<\/a> which I started.<\/p>\n<p>Depressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Turnbull has done a nicely illustrated post on why today&#8217;s CDs often sound worse than those from 15 years ago. The problem is that most pop\/rock CDs are engineered to sound loud at the expense of the natural dynamics of the music. The hi-fi industry has wasted an enormous amount of effort on DVDA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9829-why-cds-sound-bad.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why CDs sound bad<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}