Ok, so the other day my wife comes home with a kids CD she purchased at church for my 2 year old son. It's basically a collection of kid singalong Sunday school songs. Anyway, me being the enthusiast that I am, put the CD on just for kicks. I was immediately blown away by the fidelity of this CD. The vocals were crystal clear. Even the ambient sounds came through very clean. It appeared that this "kid" CD had been engineered with very good recording techniques. I know this sounds hilarious, doesn't it?! Well, I picked up the CD case to see if I could get any more information on this recording. I discovered that this CD was mastered at a 24-bit resolution. "WOW!", I thought. "This CD probably rivals many of the best recordings I own." I had to start laughing at this point. Whether you are a religious person or not, you have to respect the fact that someone is getting good quality music into the hands of our kids, a much better alternative to the compressed crap they are downloading onto their iPods these days. I though to myself, "What a sad world we live in where a kid CD (never really intended to be played on a high fidelity system) is recorded extremely well, while much of the popular music of today is recorded so poorly. Just another example of the sad state of the music industry. Anway, I just thought I would post this story.
