Arny Krueger wrote:

"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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It's quite true that CD doesn't suffer from vinyl's pops and crackles,
and I'm pretty sure most people didn't actively like the latter.

You've got that right! Both coutns.

However, I am far from convinced that they were that bothered about
them,

You wouldn't be if you had been around in those days.

I was around. What's more, those days are still around, every time
someone plays an LP.

or indeed about most sonic defects.

Why do you think that? That people are tolerating the (relatively small)
audible flaws in MP3s proves nothing, because the flaws in legacy media (LP,
consumer analog tape) was far more audible.

I think it for the reasons I've already given: wherever you go, people
are listening to very badly-distorted sound, as they have done for
decades, without any sign that they notice a problem.

I don't actively enjoy vinyl's pops and crackles, but I don't mind them
that much. My brain seems to tune them out, unless they're very bad. The
same goes for tape hiss. I can hear it if I listen for it, but unless
it's excessive, it gets tuned out. In fact, the more I listen to the
music, the less I hear those defects.

On the other hand, I strongly dislike MP3s compression, and in
particular the way it can turn things like cymbals into an undefined
mmssssshhhhhh sound. And in the case of MP3, the more carefully I listen
the more I hear the distortion and the more it spoils the music.

Sonic defects that are laid over the sound (such as vinyl surface noise,
tape hiss) I find easy to ignore.

Those that distort the sounds themselves (MP3 compression, the glassy
distortion of a badly-tracked record) I find much more unpleasant, and I
remain bewildered at the boundless ability of other people to tolerate
them.

Daniele
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