What's the worst audio you heard recently?

purplepeople · 27th September 2003, 07:55 PM

Here is a thread for poorly recorded music or movies with bad audio quality. Please don't list bad music or b-movies - that is a question of your taste. Maybe we can warn others of stuff that was made without care.

:)ensen.

purplepeople · 27th September 2003, 07:58 PM

I just saw the DVD "Drumline" and the audio is so compressed that the volume changes during the "battle of the bands" sequence. I saw it on an airplane about 6 months ago and thought I would rent it to really hear the beauty of the drums, but no... either the mastering for DVD was poor or the duplicators switched on the limiters. Fun movie, horrible sound.

:)ensen.

purplepeople · 27th September 2003, 07:59 PM

My worst recorded CD is Ricky Martin, Living la Vida Loca. Sound like it was compressed... twice! Fun but flat!

:)ensen.

roddyama · 27th September 2003, 08:15 PM

In trying to re-capture my youth, I started buying the CD version of my old LPs and I found CD with this label to be of poor quality.

dhaen · 27th September 2003, 08:51 PM

On Ampex's C-format audio alignment tape, the tone anouncements are muffled and distorted. Hardly fills one with confidence

Da5id4Vz · 27th September 2003, 09:50 PM

Sounded good on the NTSC type C tape, perhaps the guys in Redwood City were messin with ya.

dhaen · 27th September 2003, 10:37 PM

As you know, the PAL tape was completely different, so maybe they were. When topical, it was one of those industry jokes..

Peter Daniel · 28th September 2003, 02:21 AM

That's the worst audio recording I have in my collection. It's so bad, that it's actually really good. "Sid Sings"

matjans · 28th September 2003, 02:59 AM

Mozart's Requiem, the Naxos version -I think it was the Czech Philarmonic orchestra, which isn't that bad really.

Naxos has some *very* good recordings in it's collection, but -alas- these are rare...

JOE DIRT® · 28th September 2003, 03:04 AM

Led zepp box set...I was disappointed....Rubber Plant sounded like my aunt singing out of a tin can

27th September 2003, 07:55 PM	#1
purplepeople diyAudio Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: London, Ontario, Canada	What's the worst audio you heard recently? Here is a thread for poorly recorded music or movies with bad audio quality. Please don't list bad music or b-movies - that is a question of your taste. Maybe we can warn others of stuff that was made without care. :)ensen. __________________ Those who claim to be making history are often the same ones repeating it.

27th September 2003, 07:58 PM	#2
purplepeople diyAudio Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: London, Ontario, Canada	Drumline thumped I just saw the DVD "Drumline" and the audio is so compressed that the volume changes during the "battle of the bands" sequence. I saw it on an airplane about 6 months ago and thought I would rent it to really hear the beauty of the drums, but no... either the mastering for DVD was poor or the duplicators switched on the limiters. Fun movie, horrible sound. :)ensen. __________________ Those who claim to be making history are often the same ones repeating it.

27th September 2003, 07:59 PM	#3
purplepeople diyAudio Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: London, Ontario, Canada	Living La Audio Loco My worst recorded CD is Ricky Martin, Living la Vida Loca. Sound like it was compressed... twice! Fun but flat! :)ensen. __________________ Those who claim to be making history are often the same ones repeating it.

27th September 2003, 08:51 PM	#5
dhaen diyAudio Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: U.K.	Feel the quality..... On Ampex's C-format audio alignment tape, the tone anouncements are muffled and distorted. Hardly fills one with confidence

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27th September 2003, 09:50 PM	#6
Da5id4Vz diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: lost in america...	Sounded good on the NTSC type C tape, perhaps the guys in Redwood City were messin with ya.

27th September 2003, 10:37 PM	#7
dhaen diyAudio Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: U.K.	As you know, the PAL tape was completely different, so maybe they were. When topical, it was one of those industry jokes..

28th September 2003, 02:59 AM	#9
matjans diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Utrecht, NL	Mozart's Requiem, the Naxos version -I think it was the Czech Philarmonic orchestra, which isn't that bad really. Naxos has some very good recordings in it's collection, but -alas- these are rare...

28th September 2003, 03:04 AM	#10
JOE DIRT® diyAudio Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Brantford, ON	Led zepp box set...I was disappointed....Rubber Plant sounded like my aunt singing out of a tin can

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