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Re: 90s shows in poor sound

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InnerRevolution7Jan 21, 2013
 

 
Haha, I remember when I got my 2 gig hard drive -- I thought I was a king of infinite space. So funny now.

--- In just-a-minute@..., nylon wrote:
>
> True. I remember thinking with horror that a song took nearly FOUR
> MEGABYTES - it would take up to four floppy disks to store it, zipped with
> spanning. In those days we went to desperate lengths to save every byte:
> look at the 1990s Geocities websites to get some idea how parsimonious we
> were with media.
>
> Nowadays, I regard a 700MB movie as "sub-standard quality" and use the
> 1.4GB version because it's a bit nicer :-)
>
>
> On 22 January 2013 06:35, InnerRevolution7 wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > I know the answer!!! (raises hand) Ok, its a crap guess....
> >
> > I think it MAY be because the 90's is when people first started turning
> > audio into MP3, and in the early days of doing that, some horrible errors
> > were made in making small files, as people had tiny hard drives and were
> > sharing with dial up. These days we can make reasonably small files that
> > don't sound quite that bad. But some of those early MP3s are really
> > horrendous. That might be why you see a quality dip in the 90's as things
> > moved from audio tape to early MP3s.
> >
> > --- In just-a-minute@..., Espen Krømke wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks alot, Mark. I look forward to compare "Burns"!
> > >
> > > But this begs the question: How come the recordings we got from this
> > > decade is so particularly bad? Cause really, my list of shabby sounding
> > > recordings from the 90s could easily be doubled. I wonder why!
> > >
> > > Cause logically one would assume the quality rise as the recordings gets
> > > newer.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Den 21. jan. 2013 02:31, skrev nylon:
> > > > G'day Espen. My results are much like yours, but I do have a jolly
> > > > good copy of 411 (Telepathy).
> > > > I've also removed the background hiss from 461 (Burns) but the
> > > > muddiness of the voices remains.
> > > >
> > > > Both are at http://nylon.net/up
> > > >
> > > > Hope that helps :-)
> > >
> > > >
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> --
>
> Mark
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> http://nylon.net
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