In article , Iain Churches
wrote:

"David Looser" wrote in message
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It reminds me a lot of Iain's justification for the CD version of a
dual LP/CD release having a lot more dynamic compression than the LP
on the grounds that they are for "different markets".


Jim's claim that the people involved in CD mastering are "witless" and
"incompetent" just does not stand up, because the same CD facilities are
turning out impeccable uncompressed classical and jazz CDs together with
heavily compressed pop material.

Interesting use of an implicit "all" before "the people". :-)

Shame that the above misrepresents what I actually wrote/meant. So becomes
a form of the 'Straw Man' debating ploy.

Where did I claim that what I wrote applied to *all* producers of *all*
CDs? Did you not notice my positive comments about Chandos and others? Or
the various other wordings to indicate I was referring to *some* of those
involved, not all? By their works ye shall know them. :-)

Have you already forgotten the discussions we've had about this in the
past? Where I made quite clear that what I regard as 'witless', etc, is
the way *some* makers *presume* [implied 'all' by *them*] people will
'prefer' high levels of compression. Thus giving people no chance to
compare and decide. Hence ensuring their faith in 'louder is better'
isn't tested by the results of a genuine side-by-side comparison in the
open.

The point here is to judge each of them on their behaviour.


Slainte,

Jim

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