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Recently picked up another title which was a 20th anniversary "Power Station" cd re-master from 2005. They were a "supergroup" from the mid 1980s, which consisted of guys from Duran Duran, Chic, and singer Robert Palmer. Comparing the original and re-released versions in the loudness database...

The only recent case I can think of offhand, where the vinyl might genuinely sound better than the cd (or digital ) versions, is Taylor Swift. Apparently just about all her cd releases are brickwalled to death. Even her recent two 2020 albums and also the re-recorded album, are heavily...

The few 12" vinyl 45rpm titles I had back in the day, the only noticable difference was that 12" vinyl 45rmp version was louder than the same song on the official album which was typically 12" vinyl 33 rmp. Usually the 12" vinyl 45rpm record had one 3 or 4 minutes song cut over the entire valid...

For context, I mind as well mention the title names of my recent purchases. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger Tina Turner - Private Dancer Arcadia - So Red The Rose The brickwalling issue is very obvious with Kelly Clarkson's albums. I'm guessing very few people listen to her music for high quality...

I never quite understood the point of "half speed mastering" of vinyl albums. I thought it sounded like a gimmick.

Another recent purchase, is another title which I concluded would be a likely waste of cash for the hi-res download (if it existed). I found it in a $2 cd bin at a nearby goodwill, that was never opened by the previous owner with the original plastic wrap still intact. From checking reviews...

Case in point. Recently I wanted to listen to something again with my full attention on the standalone stereo. After searching through storage, I don't seem to have the original vinyl records anymore. Either they were lost or stolen over the years, and/or I completely forgot about them...

For the genres of music I was listening to back in the day, stuff like poor dynamic range, wow, flutter, etc ... were not really relevant. My main annoyances with vinyl was primarily the persistent record noises in between songs, and how easy it was to scratch/damage the vinyl by stupidity...

This is EXACTLY the same excuse I use to rationalize my laziness over the years/decades !!! ;) Nowadays I'm too lazy to go searching for a cd, dvd/bluray, vinyl, etc ... disc on the bookcase or in storage. Easier to just watch/listen to something online or a vod service.

Back in the day, I was hoping dvd-audio would succeed for various technical reasons. The bugaboo for me in those days, was dealing with jitter when it came to ripping / playing audio cd discs. I encountered this by chance, when I first wrote my own cd ripping program. One had to do all kinds...

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Currently: infinite. ;) The primary reason is that I am not currently subscribed to any music streaming services. Most of my current music needs, is listening to stuff on youtube. I am too lazy to even search for the cd on my bookshelf, take the disc out of the case, and placing it into my...

I never ended up on the sacd/dvd-audio hobby for one big reason. There were a total of less than 5 titles released on sacd/dvd-audio, which I had any interest in.

(As a counterexample). One of my ex-wives was more into the video/audio thing than me. Though not hardcore into the really high end stuff. In those days, I didn't care about video/audio equipment and I wasn't really into stuff like laserdiscs, dvds, etc ...

(Without getting into politics). Back in the day, I listened to a lot of "talk radio" for what would be called "opposition research" nowadays. Some stuff was quite funny, albeit in a "deadpan humor" manner (whether intentional or not).

At home, I only ever listened to FM (or AM) on-the-air radio to wake up in the morning. For many years, I kept it tuned to a rap/hiphop station. Primarily because I won't hit the snooze button, and I keep the device at the other side of the room where I have to get up and walk to turn it off...

My car stereo also plays *.wav, though the official car instruction manual doesn't mention it. Haven't bother trying *.flac yet.

I would agree with this ^ assertion in the case of stuff first recorded after y2k, in musical genres like rock, country, hiphop, dance, etc ... For stuff which was first recorded before the 1990s, this might not be quite the case. IIRC before the redbook audio cd became ubiquitious, albums...

When it comes to a home stereo, I've found the biggest bang for the buck was a separate subwoofer if you have a lot of titles with a lot of low and/or heavy sounding bass. A better cd player and/or higher resolution sources, wasn't as noticable for 24-track multitrack recordings which were not...

When I'm driving, I rarely turn on the radio/stereo. The times I do turn it on, I always tune it to a station that plays music I have no familiarity with. In practice I've found that playing music I am familiar with, is very distracting to me while driving. But if I don't know the music, I've...

I'm pretty much done with vinyl. Back in the day, I was once a hardcore vinyl collector in the days when my particular musical genre tastes were not released on cd at the time (circa mid->late 1980s). Come 1990 by the time I stopped buying a lot of music, I came to the realization I hardly...

(On a tangent). The difference between now and then, in regard to storage capacity greatly falling in price, is that nowadays I don't bother compressing my cd rips to *.mp3 or oggvorbis *.ogg files. I don't even bother with *.flac anymore either. With storage space so inexpensive, I just...

Good site for examining brickwalling statistics. As a general rule of thumb, I just consider anything pop/rock/country/hiphop/dance/etc .... first recorded after the mid-late 1990s and released on a major record label, to be automatically "brickwalled" if I have not listened it before. Same...

Years before Blockbuster kicked the bucket, I remember Blockbuster briefly had their own record stores in the mid-late 1990s with the same logos/branding as their video stores. Then one day, all those Blockbuster branded records stores were sold to another company, where all the stores changed...

The few which still exist in various locales I have lived in over the past decade or so, were independent mom-and-pop operations which specialized in a lot of vinyl. Frequently also kept a stock of generic cd titles, and/or second handed used vinyl + cd + cassettes + 8-tracks + etc .....

Sounds like you own an audio cd / sacd / dvd-audio / etc ... disc player which was manufactured after the mid-2000s. For over the past 20 years or so, I have not really used my cd player much for listening to music. Every time I purchased a new cd title, I just ripped the entire cd disc to...

Back in the day, I had no idea dualdisc even existed. Its timeline looks almost like a last ditch effort scramble. I only ever encountered it, when I saw a batch in a local dump bin for $2 a pop. (Mostly stuff released by the notoriously crappy record label Silverline). The only other...

The ill-fated "dualdisc" format tried to do something like this, in a haphazard manner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DualDisc Unfortunately it was too little too late, and largely DOA.

Back in 1999, I was hoping something like dvd-audio would have taken off and replaced the redbook audio cd. Unfortunately due to the dvd css encryption system being entirely cracked in October1999, dvd-audio was delayed for over another year where they had to scramble and come up with a better...