On 08-Feb-11 9:07 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: > The first time I heard someone talking about this, I thought, "More > audiophile silliness." But then I noticed that I tended to skip newer > music when in shuffle mode. I realised that I found newer music > fatiguing to listen to -- because they're often just a wall of sound. > I'm no audiophile -- my primary listening environment is my car, for > God's sake -- but even I find this trend irritating.
Actually, there are significant plus points (in audiophile terms) to having your car be the listening environment. Assuming reasonable NVH values [1] which most recent cars do have, the biggest advantage is that the listener is stationary relative to the speakers, and hence all kinds of optimization can be done. Udhay [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise,_vibration,_and_harshness -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
