Couldn't wait...

[Zeitgeist]

I second that emotion!

NP: Therapy? - Pleasure Death

At 17:47 07/12/1998 +0000, you wrote:
>Oh no, distressing signs of an audiophilia thread surfacing on boc-l :-O
>
>Go to more gigs, forget to use earplugs, kill off some cochlear cilia and
quit
>whining you lot!
>
>In '92 we were still pondering the existence of some HW on CD *at all*. Now
>you want them all done again ? :-)
>
>
>cheers
>
>
>Tim
>
>
>ObGig: Henry Rollins @ UEA   29/11/98
>
>
>
>> > => Yes, as soon as you get pretty much any of the old CD's onto a new
stereo
>> > => these days they sound like shit (Hawkind and BOC are both at fault
here).
>> >
>> > I'm not quite sure here, but are you saying the Hawkwind EMI remasters
>> > blow chunks?  (They are the first Hawkwind albums.)  They sound pretty
>> > spiffy to me.
>>
>> Actually, are you ready for this one?  I'm about to eat my own words,
>> here (my words of a year or so ago).
>>
>> The EMI remasters sound "soft".  There, I've said it.  Basically, the
>> processing software used to clean up those albums appears to have
>> had the following effects:
>>
>> 1.  It reduces hiss and general background noise
>> 2.  It softens the "attack" of the instruments - the string plucks
>>     don't sound as crisp.
>


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