My opinion is that talk of consumer formats (high rate MP3 vs red book vs SACD vs hi-rez PCM) is rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic. The real story is the Loudness War and the dumbing down of production values.
Almost ever "remaster" I've come across sounds worse than the original and is horribly compressed. Things are getting worse not better. With a lot of older stuff you need to research and figure out which masters are the good ones. With most new stuff you're stuck with bad production. I'm not one to buy music because it's well recorded - I buy music for the music - which serves only to make the problem more frustrating. Darren -- darrenyeats SB3 / Inguz -> Krell KAV-300i (pre bypass) -> PMC AB-1 Dell laptop -> JVC UX-C30 mini system ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57422 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
