drmatt wrote: > I can't deny that talented folks don't need any help to get things > sounding good, but the talented folks who actually provide the music I > listen to have thus far provided a mixed bag of quality and poor 16/44 > recordings. Perhaps some of them could have been better with a higher > res digital master? I seriously doubt they would have been better with a high-res master. If one CD quality file can sound good, they all can, and I have hundreds of excellent recordings and many more that sound pretty good. When they don't sound that way, the source of the poor quality is from the hands of the engineers, producers and musicians.
Of course, often the sound is bad because that is exactly the way they want it to sound. The "loudness wars" are completely due to intentional choices made during the recording, mixing and mastering process. You also have some people on the production end that just aren't as talented as others -- no different from any other industry. A certain percentage of the medical doctors out there graduated at the bottom of their class yet still have a license. I don't mind people working toward technical improvements; that's always welcome. However, high-res is never, ever going to fix the quality problems of recorded music because those deficiencies track back to conscious or unconscious choices made by those involved in the recording and production process. That is one of the things I find so annoying about audiophiles. They seem to think that everything they hear has a technical fix with a new product or storage format -- often a subjectively magical one -- when in reality most music sounds exactly the way the musicians, recording engineers and producers want it to. That's my 2 cents. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105717 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
