Quotes of the week

More importantly, does a vintage kernel sound better than a more recent one? I've been doing some testing and the results are pretty clear, not that they should surprise anyone who knows anything about recording:

1) Older kernels sound much warmer than newer ones.

2) Kernels compiled by hand on the machine they run on sound less sterile than upstream distro provided ones which also tend to have flabby low end response and bad stereo imaging.

3) As if it needed saying, gcc4 is a disaster for sound quality. I mean, seriously if you want decent audio and you use gcc4 you may as well be recording with a tin can microphone.

But this is definitely another of those "This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Al-biwan Ke-Viro, you're my only hope" issues.

Al? Please don't make me wear that golden bikini.

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