From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Apr 25 21:32:07 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27420FB0E83 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from sonic311-31.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (sonic311-31.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [77.238.176.163]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9FDF26F9AB for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:32:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) X-YMail-OSG: Ih8zlD0VM1kBvZ.WJP..sSUZvP.0u.R0dXsatyDrlIfqDmlh6jDaYL00J6birzQ b8vrgGvvBv7McrKdriRCrME.Zmg6Em4_rnMQrcBLqdmKKBngAdGfzha76poj6O7YwuKFouIdINCA 8UuueLWcCCrmjPXTnh0JDc6n3ZSpKbfvU2.T0rFJrLQr9IgQ50MMtJa2yT3py5kIMtenEU8f.AoW xD.rQYqGUUJPPFiuMO88kXjVZOSyqlVAIvBXLvWgEKTTP8TCcxEnknTWws39YmXWz1Ti4FZCo6cn QbMjHRttQu8AVmeW65cGWeI9m.Oiosh4ZwvsT2vrJUAlPP3nr0gzk.K0AWP0LowSxoBNOpPB5zaw YXy__NxvARIg2RbeobGKJom5L6UyMPJMRMxfkN_05fXFKuloIhnW5Qza_.R_0WWFbQ6HbtyDlFaC _ZzJFsggtdpUqWN7Xj5OqtDyzqHmiAyM8FwYsh9Oquh02jEy5UR4uFKQu_oIpeJeJ3DFDAQaGQXE 9dRmboZse0HyJdIQ49id2.RnD4B99zObAYaNneW7JnS0VxqBwFJzt5NwQsn4z.JhYErKfzb0lJKm F16vfJ_qv2LWW7ViU4a_QgsNNkxChG0af7bv3PTkit2RXNE9UuHdowQgUILMWYfaTS6bTg4b99W1 i Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic311.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with HTTP; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:31:59 +0000 Received: from x4e32150c.dyn.telefonica.de (EHLO archlinux) ([78.50.21.12]) by smtp422.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (Oath Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 40d2017eb85b13762f1ad1d7c97f5d32 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:31:58 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 23:31:58 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: audiophile sound on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20180425233158.6aa4ddd0@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20180425121249.3de329616ad9c07822e5e572@sohara.org> References: <20180423224242.7299f430@WorkMachine> <20180424113308.52f35f93@WorkMachine> <20180424200924.12c648bf@archlinux> <20180424235410.5e175bc6@gumby.homeunix.com> <20180425185330.70fb9b1e.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> <20180425121249.3de329616ad9c07822e5e572@sohara.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0git136 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:32:07 -0000 Comparing the same album from different sources is tricky for several reasons, already if you compare two LPs played by the same record player or two CDs by played by the same CD player. Two LPs or CDs from different editions done in the same year, without any remastering, could sound different, caused by fabrication issues. Two LPs or two CDs from different years could differ by e.g. reduced dynamic, caused by a remastering with an insane amount of compression, to increase the impression of loudness, it's known as the loudness war. The peaks might have the same level, while passages with lower levels might get higher levels, so there is less difference between a silent passage and a loud passage of a recording. There are many other known issues, especially if something was released as a record first and years later was released as a CD. Theoretically a CD could sound better than a record, but indeed, often records sound much better. Let alone that a very old record might suffer from disgusting scratches, but still could be played, while a very old CD might suffer from fatal data loss, so playing the CD might be impossible and even recovering of the still available data and burning the recovered data to a new CD might lead to nothing.