Yes sir Chuck

Jaime Solorza

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018, 9:20 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

> There ain’t quite nothing like an electric guitar plugged into a hot tube
> amp.  Even the silence has that tiny bit of hum and reverb in it.  I like
> how tubes color the music.  It seems more “live” for some reason.
>
> *From:* castarritt
> *Sent:* Friday, October 5, 2018 9:13 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - autotune
>
> To be fair, I can see the difference between 1080p/4k/8k with a big enough
> screen viewed from a close enough difference.  I can't hear any difference
> between 16bit PCM and "high res" audio.  Hell, I can't even claim that I'm
> able to perceive a difference between 16bit lossless and a well-encoded
> MP3.  The only reason I keep my collection in lossless formats is that
> simply knowing the encoding is lossy somehow takes away from my enjoyment.
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:46 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Probably just because I’m old, but I can’t stand the overuse of autotune
>> in most pop music today.  Not just to polish up a few off-key notes, but
>> the whole song is heavily autotuned.
>>
>>
>>
>> For anyone on the list who lives or travels outside the US, is this just
>> a US phenomenon?  Or is it everywhere, including Europe and South America?
>>
>>
>>
>> I heard the studio version of this song on the car radio last night and
>> had to Google the lyrics to find the singer, who turned out to be from
>> Germany.  Obviously capable of singing without autotune, or at least
>> performing live without lip syncing:
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38FORtUWDKA
>>
>>
>>
>> I don’t know where the recorded music industry is headed.  I try to find
>> high res FLAC downloads and most of what’s available is remastered stuff
>> from 30+ years ago.  The few “audiophiles” today seems to be listening to
>> vinyl on their tube amps.  Yet I saw an ad for a $15,000 85 inch 8K
>> resolution Samsung TV, shipping later this month.  Video and audio seem to
>> have gone opposite directions.  (I estimate that 8K streaming video will
>> require up to 100 Mbps Internet speed.)
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