mcb@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Michael Browne) (05/10/85)
I recently purchased a copy of "Disraeli Gears" by Cream on CD, only to find
that there was a loud hiss in the background. I returned it for another
copy, but this copy hissed also. After several iterations, I gave up.
Was I just unlucky or is something wrong with this recording?
--Mike
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arpa: mcb@cmu-cs-k.ARPAjj@alice.UUCP (05/13/85)
"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". -- TEDDY BEARS ARE OPINIONATED! AFTER ALL, SOMEONE HAS TO BE RIGHT! "Then one said to the other, I think we must be gone, We'll leave a present for our friend before me move along..." (ihnp4/allegra)!alice!jj
zadco@ssc-vax.UUCP (Rick Fairfield) (05/17/85)
> I recently purchased a copy of "Disraeli Gears" by Cream on CD, only to find > that there was a loud hiss in the background. I returned it for another > copy, but this copy hissed also. After several iterations, I gave up. > > Was I just unlucky or is something wrong with this recording? > --Mike > -- > uucp: ..!seismo!cmu-cs-k!mcb, or possibly ..!{allegra,ihnp4}!cmucspt!mcb > arpa: mcb@cmu-cs-k.ARPA analog master tape to digital disk = lots of hiss (i.e. garbage in, garbage out) zzzzzadco