Article: Grammy nominee thinks he has the answer for bad-sounding compact discs.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Grammy award nominee Keith Johnson has been on a 20-year quest to make compact discs sound as good as the old records you threw away.

That's right. I said as good.

Because Johnson and some of his lesser-known audiophile colleagues in the Berkeley and Pacifica companies he helps run say record company executives sold consumers a bill of goods when they promised that digital music on compact discs would be the best sound ever.

To believe them, says Johnson, would be like believing that the Apple II computer you bought in 1980 is the state of the art today, instead of being the Nash Rambler of computers _ a machine to get you around the ...

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