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From: jj@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Problems with "Disraeli Gears" on CD
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 12:53:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 12:53:37 1985
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"Disraeli Gears" and many other re-releases of old
rock and pop recordings are made from masters that
themselves contain an exorbitant amount of hiss. The
CD process is very good at reproducing that hiss
in a very exact fashion.  The CD process (or any other
linear process, for that matter) cannot remove the noise
(entropy) added to the signal by the original recording
process.    (In fact, if a method for removing
noise from signals were known, it would <ahem>
greately simplify the communications of the world, we would
need only one very noisy wire... :-) )

A sad, but true statement of the disrespect of
the Record (that's vinyl, folks) industry for its
consumers is evident in the old rock motto:
"Don't worry, it's only Rock and Roll, nobody will care
about the hiss as long as it's loud and compressed".


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"Then one said to the other, I think we must be gone,
We'll leave a present for our friend before me move along..."

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