In article , Mike Coatham
wrote:
On 19/12/2010 12:27 a.m., Jim Lesurf wrote:
In , Eiron
wrote:
On 18/12/2010 10:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
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wrote:
Some professional musicians are getting fed up with the amateurs on
X- Factor getting the Christmas No.1, so they've put out a
recording of John Cage's 4'33", this is a piece composed in 1952
which is for any number of musicians to remain silent for 4 minutes
and 33 seconds.

Of course you never get true silence with people in a room. They
breathe and move - even when seated or standing still.

It will probably be normalized to 0dB when played on the radio. :-)

I suspect you are correct. Indeed, if it is released on CD as well as
download...

Slainte,

Jim

Jim, now wouldn't it be the ideal piece to let loose on the "vinyl is
better than CD" brigade? It would also be interesting to compare how
each genre is mastered/ pressed ......... Oooh! and what about DBT
just to put the pressure on!

If someone can provide me with copies sold on CD, LP, etc, I'll do the
measurements and post the results. They may interest the 'silent
majority'... :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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