Illuminating CDs: A New Thread
I received a copy of an email this morning from Mark of CDIllumination, the company in Australia that is “vivifying”
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Loudness Nirvana?
Thanks to a reader’s recommendation, I found my way to a paper about the concept of loudness normalization written by
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Loudness and Normalization
This whole loudness war issue is still among the biggest issues confronting the music industry today. And it includes to
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Copy Me Stupid!
It’s a special day today…it’s the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685), my favorite composer by far. There’s
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The Loudness War Is Here To Stay!
Ian Shephard runs a website out of the UK called production advice. He’s a skilled mastering engineer and a strong
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Pure Fiction
The Redbook specification for Compact Discs doesn’t allow for any additional improvements to fidelity through any of the hocus pocus
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Taking It On Faith
I started this daily blog back in 2013 after reading many of the daily posts by my friend Paul McGown
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Analog Thinking in a Digital World
Mechanical analog playback systems and signal routing are very dependent on machines with tight tolerances and signals that are protected
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Mythbusters: CDs Optical Properties Affect The Sound?
I came across the following claim in an aging post about very expensive “$2000 glass CDs”. The author, a well-known
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Missing My 6th Marathon
Today is the 30th running of the Los Angeles Marathon. It would have been my 6th consecutive running of the
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