Black fonts are more gray than black

Sergio Hernandez I commented on this yesterday and it has been bugging me enough I did a little more digging.

It appears the old edge doesn't use a true greyscale with its anti-aliasing. I think this is what is leading to the new edge text looking washed out. I've included some reference examples below. The first is at normal text size and the other is magnified 800%. It appears they do a similar level of anti-aliasing just using different color paletes. (For reference, this text was grabbed from CNN.com's current headline article.)

I definitely find the old syte easier to read.