Cuyler
Bright colored pinwheels go 'round in my head.
Hi all,
I'm branching off a discussion we had in the Carpenters forum for a more general audience.
Most CDs pressed after 1986 have those reeded/grooved top and bottom edges on the jewel case. If you run your finger across the top or bottom of the jewel case, it's very textured. However, most CDs from the early era of CDs are smooth. This is one visual way audiophiles can tell if the music on the CD has suffered from the loudness wars (which came about in the late 1980s and early 1990s). For audiophiles, the CDs with smooth-edged jewel cases sound best, because they are the earliest transfers from the source tape to a digital medium.
In my collection, I have the following (in no particular order):
What CDs do you have in your collection with smooth-edged jewel cases? How do they sound compared to, say, a version you can find on iTunes or HDTracks?
I'm branching off a discussion we had in the Carpenters forum for a more general audience.
Most CDs pressed after 1986 have those reeded/grooved top and bottom edges on the jewel case. If you run your finger across the top or bottom of the jewel case, it's very textured. However, most CDs from the early era of CDs are smooth. This is one visual way audiophiles can tell if the music on the CD has suffered from the loudness wars (which came about in the late 1980s and early 1990s). For audiophiles, the CDs with smooth-edged jewel cases sound best, because they are the earliest transfers from the source tape to a digital medium.
In my collection, I have the following (in no particular order):
- Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms
- Bryan Adams, Reckless (shoutout to A&M Records)
- Carpenters, Made in America (although, as I've documented here, the CD got scuffed when I put it into a slot-loading tray )
- James Taylor, JT
- Starship, Knee Deep in the Hoopla
- Heart, Little Queen
- Hall & Oates, Big Bam Boom
- Steve Perry, Street Talk
- Stevie Wonder, Innervisions
- Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
- Phil Collins, No Jacket Required
What CDs do you have in your collection with smooth-edged jewel cases? How do they sound compared to, say, a version you can find on iTunes or HDTracks?