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the audio cd is a beautiful standard because it is something truly rare in the field of technology: it is complete. it set out to solve the problem of distributing audio, and it solved it so completely that it will never be obsolete, because it delivers quality far surpassing what the human ear can make out. for the last four decades, audio has simply been a solved problem, thanks to the cd.
because it delivers quality far surpassing what the human ear can make out
Of course, thanks to loudness wars all that quality has been pointless for (at least) the last two decades.
@jernej__s tragically, the cd is too perfect. vinyl wouldn't allow a loudness war :(
@hikari I took these screenshots in 2004:
@hikari This was shortly after I bought Sennheiser HD555 headphones, and was wondering why some songs sounded so bad…