Couldn't wait...

[bart]

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.