So that’s the deal Simon, I think you’ve nailed it. We’ve sold our musical souls for the hell that is convenience.:) (ok maybe a bit hyperbolic)
But you are on to something. Sure, it’s great to carry around a million songs
in my device or have the entire catalog of the output of the human race
available over the network via stream but if they all sound like you know what
on a shingle then what’s the point? :)
Again, I think it’s sort of in the same category as the headphone jack. People
just don’t care. They don’t listen close enough to care. Of course some do
but I’m speaking in generalities here. The mass market doesn’t care if their
Taylor Swift is sampled at 44.1, 48 or 96 KHZ and lossless compressed or lossy
squeezed until the life is left lying on the floor.
Popular music was weaponized in the 60S and 70S. The CIA and UK intelligence
agencies formed an institute that studied the effects of media, especially
music and how to generate mass market products that influence the populations
and “dumb them down”. Part of that effort is the total artificialization of
the content. I personally played a part unfortunately in this progression with
some of my work early on in my career in teaching computers to reconstruct
human voices to make them more appealing to the ear. People just don’t hear a
difference from Taylor Swift’s 4 chord mind numbing progression to One
Direction’s 4 chord mind numbing progression. It’s all generated by the same
software. The very few of us who still like to listen to Miles Davis or Andre
Watts or Willy Nelson or fill in your real musician here don’t matter.
It was a real eye or is it ear opener for me the other day when I tried
to listen to a pianist execute a real performance instead of Nicole Scherzinger
undressing on my iPhone while the computer sings for her and it shocked the
hell out of me.
I remember something my professor told me in college when he and I were having
an argument over digital audio verses analog and being a young whippersnapper I
was on the digital side. He said “digital music is to formaldehyde as to what
analog music is to a frog. A frog perfectly preserved in formaldehyde will
last for ever and always look like a frog but it’s not alive and as such it’s
no longer a real frog.” He was right. I don’t want my frogs to be close
digital approximations.:)
> On Apr 29, 2016, at 4:53 AM, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Remember folks that it's not apple setting the standards for digital music.
>
> I have to agree though that I'm starting to find music to perfect and clair,
> I remember when a 33 &1/3 rpm vinyl was around and the hiss and crackle of
> the stylus on the vinyl surface was what really added to the sound.
>
> It's amazing how much clairer vinyl has become in the way of sound quality
>
> But I still find mp3 the most convenient
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott
> Sent: Friday, 29 April 2016 2:34 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: iPhone 7 specs confirmed from a leaked schematic, includes 2
> cameras and no iPhone jack
>
> I’m not sure what you mean, voiceover and bluetooth don’t act particularly
> badly at least not in my environment. What’s the complaint? What’s the
> issue you have with bluetooth, maybe I can provide a work around.
>
>
>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 9:42 AM, Daniel Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Either that, or they could work on a new standard that doesn't need
>> Bluetooth. Especially if we're going to go all wireless, since Bluetooth and
>> voiceover are incredibly horrible together.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone 6S Plus
>>
>>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 9:29 AM, Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> So speaking of audio, another thing Apple could do is work on a new
>>> compression method that doesn’t sound like complete garbage. I didn’t
>>> realize how bad audio had gotten in recent years. I’ve been listening to
>>> this weaponized popular music lately that’s all digital, compressed and
>>> artificially bright anyway so I didn’t think much of it but I tried playing
>>> a recording of Andre Watts playing the Piano at Tangle Wood and it sounded
>>> like plastic mush. The equivalent of eating a big mac. It just had a
>>> hollow vibe to it, the space was wrong among other things. We’ve taken a
>>> big step backwards. I miss the old days of 44.1 kHz sampled 16bit CDs and
>>> I never thought I’d say that. It’s to bad to there are some really good
>>> lossless high bandwidth recording technologies out there and we’re
>>> definitely not using them.:(
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 9:19 AM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thank God. Now Apple could do something awesome with the digital audio
>>>> outut, or even put sensors on the Earpods. Maybe games, or even voiceover,
>>>> could track head movements. That'd be good for blind square as well. Thank
>>>> God for change.
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 8:05 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm. Well, I let you grab that pre-order and watch your review on
>>>>> the Youtube channel first. :) Cheers, Donna
>>>>>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 8:01 AM, Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh I totally disagree.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There will be an ability to pack a lot more in to this device with out
>>>>>> having the headphone jack in the way and sending audio out the lightning
>>>>>> connector. The two cameras are also useful because you can determine
>>>>>> distance to objects with multiple video feeds combined that way. That
>>>>>> might be very useful for us specifically once apps take advantage of it.
>>>>>> New processor for more speed, I’ll be grabbing a 7 hopefully this time
>>>>>> on the preorder so I can unbox on my youtube channel. I don’t know but
>>>>>> i hope the radio upgrade is as good as the 6 to 6S or 5S to 6 was.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 8:57 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That sounds utterly uninteresting. Hard to believe that I won't be
>>>>>>> tempted to drink the cool aide this time around.
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Donna
>>>>>>>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 7:55 AM, Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Redmond Pie is reporting that a leaked iPhone 7 schematic appeared in
>>>>>>>> a japanese magazine and confirms many of the rumors out there. The
>>>>>>>> iPhone 7+ also called the Pro will include dual cameras for
>>>>>>>> stereoscopic vision, no head phone jack and a smart connector on the
>>>>>>>> back. Also appears to have a touch sensitive home button and a
>>>>>>>> similar size to the iPhone 6s+.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Read more here
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.redmondpie.com/rumored-iphone-7-plus-features-and-des
>>>>>>>> ign-specs-confirmed-by-schematics-leak/
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