On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Marc 3 Poirier wrote:
quoted 18 lines I can't believe how spoiled people are by CD Audio that they feel like> > I can't believe how spoiled people are by CD Audio that they feel like
> > they need 24bit, 96khz audio. I was 25 before I bought my first CD
> > player and CDs. Some of the people on this mailing list were born after
> > the introduction of the CD!
> >
> > Sure, it's nice to have that headroom both in frequency and dynamics, but
> > that's a technical thing having to do with music production, not with
> > listening pleasure.
>
> I like all of the music that I like, but sometimes the high frequencies
> on certain CDs hurt my ears. It certainly depends a lot on the CD player
> as well (with the digital to analogue converters in it), & since I got this
> splendid new CD player about a year ago, I don't have the problem as often
> any more, but I still do with some CDs. & they hurt in this way unique to
> inadequate digital audio, something that never happens with good quality
> all-analogue recordings. I would like to see a higher standard sampling
> rate for digital audio, & bit rate, too. That's all, bye.
>
Well listening to CD's shouldn't hurt anyway. That's the fault of the
mastering engineer.