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> CD distortion

WHAT?!

Maybe you mean the dynamic range clipping caused from the bad mastering that happened during the loudness wars, but CD as a medium is impossible to have audio distortion due to its impressive 44.1 kHz sample rate at 16 bit depth.

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You speak of "The Loudness Wars." It was a fully intentional choice made by people who knew exactly what they were doing. For the most part, bowing down to label pressure to let people think their stereo is louder.

Except for the guy who did Red Hot Chili Peppers' albums. He was known for compressing sound, and turned it to 12 for the loudness wars. Californication is the poster-child of the issue for a reason.

How does that contradict what I said?

It doesn’t. Conversation isn’t debate

Right, my bad I misunderstood.

No offense taken here. Maybe my tone was confrontational without reason.

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