On: Vintage digicams are an artistic statement

[numpad0]

There is something in CD that is noticeable by listening to vinyl, CD, and optionally mp3. I'd say CD makes everything sound like a harpsichord, but just ever so slightly. Maybe it's encoding or maybe it's decoding. Or something else. It's a first generation digital format, after all.

Analog videos never stutter but digital formats tend to have non-constant processing cost and do stutter occasionally. Maybe he's referring to that?

[crazygringo → numpad0]

> I'd say CD makes everything sound like a harpsichord

Ha, that's a great description. Yes -- you're hearing more high frequencies.

Which is by design, because they're there in real life. Vinyl cuts off the highest frequencies, as do MP3's.

Nothing to do with first generation though -- if you listen to a FLAC on your computer with wired headphones the highest frequencies are still there.

It's a feature not a bug. :)