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Re: mastering for cheap cd players

Subject: Re: mastering for cheap cd players
From: "Rich Peet" <>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:20:51 -0000
--- In  Eric Benjamin <> wrote:
>
> While the distortion is easy to hear, as Dan Dugan
> said, the reason that it's hard to see is that the
> resampling process of running the signal through
> another stage of ADC (regardless of how good the
> quality is) changes the waveform shape a lot, due to
> the elimination of ultrasonic components which are the
> ones primarily determining the waveform shape.
> 

That would explain why it is much worse hearing through headphones
than the re-sampled post I made.  I will carry my warbler cd around
for a while and try to listen on a number of peoples portable cd
players to determine how common the problem is.  I will post my
results as well when I have a handle on it.

Rich





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