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▲ annex-winged-cr 4 hours ago

> Letterpress printing historically didn’t try to put much bite into printing, preferring what’s called a kiss impression—just perfectly laying the ink on top of the paper. Martha Stewart popularized debossing because, unlike real letterpress, it felt like letterpress.

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided… It’s the sound of failure.”

▲meindnoch 4 hours ago | parent [-]

>CD distortion

Ah yes, that notorious -96dB noise.

▲NobodyNada 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Surely tape saturation or the artifacts/tone coloring of vinyl records would have been a better example.

▲SonOfKyuss 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

My thoughts as well. The main complaints I remember hearing about CDs were people claiming that they were “too clean” and didn’t have the same personality as analog formats