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Old 3rd February 2007   #10
lucey
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Originally Posted by flatfinger View Post
Regardless of how the results sound in the production environment, it's a crap shoot once the general public starts putting the end product into there cd players! Is'nt that some of the explanation behind whats happening??? The D/A and low pass filters at an M.E. 's place are going to re-construct more elagantly then those cheapy cd players that joe blow uses.
I don't have a good technical answer, but speaking from my experiences listening to clipped masters in the car .... they actually sound better there than in here. The other distortions seem to mask the artifacts.
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