Hey Logan! Nice video. CD lover here still, but I have way too many. I don’t know if I’ll ever ditch the trays but they do take up space. I’ve seen pics of re-sleeved CDs and Kallax storage units to store them, it looks so fresh. I’ve never seen that Jesus freak variant. I don’t know if my Harvest cd is hdcd there is no indication of it but sounds pretty amazing.. face to face is from here in California. They’re one of my favorite punk bands I still listen to from time to time.. God bless
Hi Logan!!! i still have some old cds so i will have to check them see if they are AAD pressings..... also my Tool "Lateralus", had no idea also about that FNM "Greatest Hits" mine i think it's the single disc. I also think i have just one SACD and it's the 30th?? edition of "the Dark Side...." cheers and be well
Rockers vs. jazz/acoustic cats and Neil Young. 😂 CDs are objectively more accurate. Period. That’s literally why they were developed. The end of that argument is “RIAA curve”. CDs have something like 20db greater dynamic range than vinyl, and remember that db is logarithmic, so every 10db is twice as loud. Jazz and acoustic types live for SACD, etc. (Now, high bitrate digital,) because it’s the format that’s most able to reproduce the full acoustic range of a performance. You can hear fingers on strings. We like vinyl because it rounds the edges off in a pleasing way, doubly so when electric instruments are in play. To the point that people run Spotify through itty bitty tube amps because it rounds off the edges on compressed digital. Vinyl throws out data in a way that sounds good. (Arguably, the first thing we hear when humans grow ears is our mother’s body, which is mostly bass and midrange. We’re primed for that.) The interesting thing is that the early CDs with the disclaimer you mention all sounded “tinny” because they were mastered by people who only worked with tape and vinyl. And treble with tape and vinyl is tough to get. So the people mastering said discs cranked the top say 5k+ hertz like they would for a record, and then we’re in treble city. Treble is also the first to go when you’re an aging rocker, so the acts didn’t really have a problem with it. It’s apocryphal, but people thought CDs were 74 minutes because that’s what you need to fit Beethoven’s 9th on one disc. And admittedly, Albini was right, rest him. We still don’t have a truly archival digital medium like tape is a truly archival medium. (Assuming you conserve it properly and transfer it to a different reel every few years.) I have a peak 70s analog system, it sounds great for what I paid for it, but I wouldn’t mind a really nice SACD rig. The Flaming Lips DVDs are all mixed in “Zaireeka 5.1”. Not that Rolling Stones thing where there’s dry vocals in the center channel, for every video they produced, it’s all mixed with everything flying at you in all directions.
Oooh! And HDCD! Which actually isn’t snake oil. It’s a quest to do it, but you can actually rip and “unfold” HDCDs to 24 bit files. And then there’s Kranky and Touch and Go who are putting out actual AAA releases. Because Chicago is the analog city. 😄
