From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Complain, in writing to the record label, send CD's back to them asking for
an un-compressed version..

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Glenn M.
"RobertB"  wrote in message
news:missinglink-89C18F.14230406012007{at}news.barkto.com...
> In article ,
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote:
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>> Here's an interesting (actually VERY well done) video about what the
>> loudness war does to music.  This video is also hosted on Youtube, but in
>> their homogenized video/audio format.  Bob Katz has gotten a very high
>> quality version of this, and is hosting it on his web site.
>>
>> http://www.digido.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=28
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> Hmm. That's pretty interesting. Very interesting, in fact. So, now what
> do we do?
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>> Glenn M.
>> "mike"  wrote in message
>> news:na3up251o4393kojah02g9qen7us2v9duo{at}4ax.com...
>> > On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:06:09 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"
>> > 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>Yup, par for the course.
>> >>
>> >>I recall in one of the early Sony literature pieces, and a
meeting with
>> >>"techs" from Sony, they stated DAT is NOT a
professional format, and at
>> >>that
>> >>time, they only guaranteed 100 plays on a tape.
>> >
>> > In a previous life I worked for a major record company in the 8-track
>> > days (in the Quality Engineering department - geesh, what a misnomer...
>> > but I digress...).   I was told that the 8-track cartridges were
>> > designed intentionally to not work after about 100 plays.
>> >
>> > This was told to me by the same person who also told me that it was OK
>> > for cassette tapes to have multiple 1 second dropouts (i.e., absence of
>> > the iron oxide coating) per cassette because the cassettes were ~only
>> > listened to by bimbos walking in the sand on the beach~.
>> >
>> > The stories I could tell....
>> >
>> > /m

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