D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Saturday 29 December 2007, Cory K. wrote: > >> Sad article on the state of production and how undiscriminating/ignorant >> consumers are killing fidelity. >> > > It's funny reading this with the JAMin tutorial in mind. That tutorial is > all > about trying to make everything loud, just like the article hates. > > I agree about MP3s too. I just don't get the age of people walking around > with little things shoved in their ears, listening to hollowed out tracks > that have sacrificed their core in the name of lossy compression. >
My personal glaring example of this was Vertical Horizon's "Everything You Want". Big radio song and I heard it a million times before I heard the CD. WOW. The CD was so much more dynamic. It was like listening to a different song. Now I understand the reason for radio compression but to master songs this way is just criminal. > Especially now that so many people are foregoing CDs completely, and just > buying MP3s. They never have a chance to hear what the music wanted to be. > > Of course you can make all kinds of arguments about how true audiophiles > still > do everything the analog way, and/or the lousy 44.1 kHz/16-bits of CDs just > isn't high enough, etc. > > I guess there's a certain element of where to draw the line here, but it's > depressing how far down the line is trending these days. > *sigh* :( -Cory \m/ -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
