@Tomas
That's not how CDs were originally made back in the 80's (Telarc CDs were incredible for their "punch"). When I play my old CDs, they seem very quiet compared to modern CDs. Today, CDs are all normalized to fill the gamut.
Similar problems exists with color management. NOBODY understands how to do color management properly, and I mean nobody. Why is it when I tell my printer that a color is #C3C3C3, it prints green? Doesn't it know that when you have equal parts of red, green, and blue, you should get gray? Stupid forced color mapping!
This is all bad mastering, not the fault of the technology.
A lot of craftsmanship "suffers" over the years because they forget the old fashioned way of doing things, and more importantly, WHY they were done that way in the first place.
Hell, have you ever seen a PC game that throttles its framerate to sync with the monitor? Even some console games are out of sync these days. Don't these developers know that drawing graphics too fast actually makes things look worse?!
New hardware or old hardware is not going to solve this. People just need to be aware of the problems to fix them. The reason why I insist on running Amiga software strictly on modern hardware is because the hardware is not the problem. Insisting on custom hardware is not going to do anything.
It's suffering, all right.
TiredOLife: "To be honest, the only time I do suffer is when I do have to use the windows machine.
Wait forever for the thing to boot up and then wait again whilst the thing shuts itself down."
Get rid of your OEM Windows and get a retail copy. My XP machine boots in 18 seconds, with Apache and MySQL in the background. It does take a whopping 5 seconds to shut down, though.
