[Khazim]

I'm a big fan of NIN and I finally bought The Downward Spiral CD a few weeks ago. I noticed on my crappy Sony MDR-V101 headphones that the highest sound in the song Hurt gets distorted (the high part of the music when he says I hurt my self today... I noticed it at the "today" part). I thought it was just the headphones so I rip the CD to mp3 and take a listen with my also crappy Sound Blaster PCI 128 sound card + JBL Pro speakers. I still hear it, both when playing from the CD and mp3.

Recently I got a ChromeX mp3/cd player. I'm using the earbuds that came with it until tomorrow when I get my Sennheiser HD280PROs. I burned a CD with NIN, listened to hurt, and now I notice the distortion on pretty much every part of the song, except the chorus. It's on the left side only though... there's some weird hissing or something going on on the left side... the right side is fine. I put in the actual DS CD and heard the same thing.

Does anyone know if this is normal (badly recorded?) or is my CD just bad?

 

[Nezer]

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Originally posted by Khazim I'm a big fan of NIN and I finally bought The Downward Spiral CD a few weeks ago. I noticed on my crappy Sony MDR-V101 headphones that the highest sound in the song Hurt gets distorted (the high part of the music when he says I hurt my self today... I noticed it at the "today" part). I thought it was just the headphones so I rip the CD to mp3 and take a listen with my also crappy Sound Blaster PCI 128 sound card + JBL Pro speakers. I still hear it, both when playing from the CD and mp3. Recently I got a ChromeX mp3/cd player. I'm using the earbuds that came with it until tomorrow when I get my Sennheiser HD280PROs. I burned a CD with NIN, listened to hurt, and now I notice the distortion on pretty much every part of the song, except the chorus. It's on the left side only though... there's some weird hissing or something going on on the left side... the right side is fine. I put in the actual DS CD and heard the same thing. Does anyone know if this is normal (badly recorded?) or is my CD just bad?

You've never noticed that before?? It's supposed to be there.

It's not badly recorded when it was on purpose..

If you really want a mind-screw, listen to the opening of Mr. Self Destruct. Hear that high-pitch ringing?

Trent is a genius. His albums contain hidden-detail galore!

 

[Nezer]

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[Khazim]

Hrmm okay, cool. I was worried that my cd was bad because my friend said his sounded fine... he must havereally bad ears :\

 

[grinch]

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Originally posted by Khazim I'm a big fan of NIN and I finally bought The Downward Spiral CD a few weeks ago.

um, if you're such a big nin fan.. how come you waited till the album has been out eight years to buy it? heheh

 

[daycart1]

This music is poking fun at us audiophiles. We get obsessed about lowering noise floors and the like, then buy albums with the noise deliberately mixed in!
Or perhaps it is democratic music--sounds just as good on lousy equipment.

 

[Khazim]

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Originally posted by grinch um, if you're such a big nin fan.. how come you waited till the album has been out eight years to buy it? heheh

I liked them waaay back when they pretty much only had tapes, forgot about em a bit, went into a rap phase, and now I'm recovering

Well, I haven't liked rap for close to a year now

I'm a student without a job so I can't just buy any CDs that I want whenever so I had to wait a bit before I could get TDS.

Anyway, the distortion is much much lower now that my v6's have broken in