On 12/02/2012 17:43, Chris Morriss wrote:
In message om, Rob
writes
I am wondering, and without wanting to bring on escalation, if the transfer
from analogue to digital is at least part of the reason some people prefer LPs?

Nearly all the cd releases of old vinyl recordings that I have heard in the past
15 years or so have had the so-called 're-mastering' applied. This normally is
little more than an excessive amount of level compression, though I think that
any compression applied to a good quality original recording is unacceptable.

+1

Normalise to -1dbFS by all means, but why all the compression? Loudness wars
surely don't apply to those who want a CD version of a favourite recording?
It's not the CD transfer that's the issue, it's foolish sound engineers thinking
that they know best.

Thinking that they know best seems to be an inherent shortcoming of a lot of
contemporary sound people.

I often use audacity snip

A fantastic program that for free represents unbelievable value for [no] money.
Every windows user should have it on their machine.

Is there not a similar program for those who persist in using a bizarre platform such as a RISCos machine?

Nothing remotely as good as Audacity that I know of but anyone who knows of one
could provide a link.