Nicholas Leippe wrote: > Most people just stick in their disc and let itunes, wmp, or real jukebox rip > it for them, with default settings, and they are happy with it. Play any of > those on a decent set of speakers and you can hear all the horrible > artifacts. But, the masses just don't really seem to care. I've often heard > people play music tracks that had a horrible skip or static in the middle-- > they just tolerate it, kind of in the same manner that they just tolerate > windows crashes...
Ironically, those people who won't tolerate this kind of garbage do tolerate the horrible mixing and volume levels of any recent recording. Even vocal and orchestrated music is recorded this way nowadays. It's horrible. The subtle nuances of the quieter tones are all drown out by the volume compression. Even on a basic CD we have 20 bits to mess with yet all the studios make the sound as loud as they can, reducing the amount of useful sound levels. Instead of pristine, 20-bit sound, it's often all packed into the upper 4 bits (amplitude-wise). Why they do this is beyond me. My stereo is perfectly capable of expanding and amplifying the signal. Maybe this all comes out of the Phil Spectre idea of the wall of sound. I dunno. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
