Those who have TT

[Smokey]

Geoffcin, couldn’t you find more longer links

After glancing over the links, all I have to say is that is a shame. Especially in George Graham link where he mentioned that several prominent mastering engineers have complained that they are being pushed to make the CDs they work on as loud as possible. Which mean over compression and lower dynamics. Money over matter wins again.

It's still a fundamental limitation of the Redbook format. I don't *blame* the engineers who arrived at the format because, unlike the analog domain, there was a huge fence (700 MB disc capacity at the time) they had to work around.

I Don't knwo if you remember this or not, but back in 80's the first pressing of Ledd Zepplin albums on CDs sounded so bad because the same master for LP were used to press CDs. But once th remastered CD came out under the supervision of Page himself, the sound quality was like night and day compare with earlier CDs.

So if a CD sound bad, the first blame should go the engineer-not the format