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Why do classical cds have so much hiss?


Why is their always white noise in classical records? - Reddit

And as the other commenter pointed out, classical music has massive dynamic range. The softest sounds in classical are much softer than even the ...

Why do classical cds have so much hiss? | Home Theater Forum

On many older "classical" releases there was tape hiss & other artifcats that came from mastering the original tape. Yes, this meant nothing was ...

What's That Hissing Sound? - Classical Music Forum

meaning that you got a recording in CD format that's just a straight cut off a concert recording tape. If I recall correctly analog recording ...

Do Classical music CDs also suffer from The Loudness Wars?

There is quite a bit of hiss on it (which is odd for a recording done that late I suppose), which does not bother me as I love the playing on it ...

Background silence vs. Hiss - AudioKarma

The hiss is there together with the music in analog recordings. Removing it implies intervention on the music too. You´d better accept it as a ...

Why hiss on classical music in The AnswerBank: Technology

Even if it's recorded on CD I find there's still hiss on songs featuring classical music. I got the Rob Dougan album 'Furious Angels' and ...

Why is so much classical music recorded so poorly? There ... - Quora

Many classical recordings are made at live performances, using microphones which are some distance fro the performers, in order to catch the ...

Why do Classical CDs sound less Alive/Real/Present

They also try to capture the natural reverb of the venue where the recording takes place. So you get a very different sound than you get from a ...

A rant on the hiss that's in so many orchestral libraries. - Page 2

We record in stems for our orchestral recordings, and if we didn't do noise/hiss removal, the build-up would make the recordings sound far less ...

Why do most classical recordings are recorded at -40dB reference ...

Classical recordings have far higher dynamic range than popular music recordings. The recording level is therefore set so that at no time does ...

Why is Classical So Committed to CDs? - WildKat PR

The answer is simple – CD has a much better audio quality. Vinyl gives you the nostalgic hiss and the unique experience of listening to vinyl.

Are Older Recordings Really Better? - Audiophile Review

The hiss on the older recordings was NOT originally that bad. Digital is not the reason-- the reason is the choice of compression (very stealthy ...

Why CDs Just Sound Better | Indie Music Minute | Disc Makers Blog

Yes, vinyl has that “analog warmth,” but CDs don't crackle and pop, they don't skip, they have a much wider dynamic range so they can get louder ...

Do You Know How Much Classical Music Is Edited? - YouTube

recordings as well. This episode of Sound Field explores the current debate in classical music of how much recordings should be edited ...

The Sounds of Music | Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Recordings that include hissing surface noise are as interesting to me as those made in modern, 'silent' recording studios. Put simply, ...

Collecting Classical CDs - Urban Art & Antiques

Interestingly it is not the musicians who had scanty recordings that attract collectors, on the contrary, it was those who had too many.

Why do so many musicians avoid their own recordings?

Or could it be something deeper - that hearing old recordings, or a piece from a few years ago, is a psychological block to a performer's or a ...

What Is Dynamic Range, and Why Does it Matter? - Yamaha Music

Loud vs. Louder ... The unintended consequence was that the dynamic range of those recordings got smaller, making the music sound squashed, less ...

Are recordings killing classical music? - Historically Incorrect

There's no question that the pop recordings are more satisfying to listen to; they are heavily produced, compressed, and balanced to create a ...

Blog - Classical CD Reviews

... as a review of the BIS has evolved into a closer look at both discs. Moreover, comparing the two is logical, as they have much in common. Both are recent ...