darrenyeats;377959 Wrote: > 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. Well said that man. Modern mastering of mainstream pop and rock is almost universally dreadful, and renders the delivery format virtually irrelevant.
I often comfort myself with the fact that I'm an old fogey who doesn't like new music, so I am lucky to have the non-mangled older releases of the music I love. (But then, I sometimes wonder if the reason I don't like new music may be because it's mastered so badly - if only it were properly done I might actually like Coldplay, perish the thought). -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57422 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
