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In Reply to: RE: How do YOU feel about MQA? posted by Doug Schneider on October 26, 2016 at 14:26:16
I consider this another rearrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic. It fails to address the real problem in audio reproduction -- bad recordings.
With the ordinary CD format, I can clearly hear vocals that were too closely miked (or a poor choice of mikes), bad mixing, overdone EQ and special effects, 15' wide pianos, drummers with the same arm-span, loudness wars casualties and so on.
I can also enjoy well done recordings where the engineers and producers concentrated on the music instead of getting wrapped up in the current recording fads.
There is nothing about a new storage format that will improve bad recordings. I have many CDs in my collection that are absolutely stunning to listen to as-is -- switching to a different file format is debating the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.
As you can tell, I'm not impressed as it doesn't fix the real problem.
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On the one hand, isn't it a bit silly to expect a new format of any kind to suddenly fix bad recordings? On the other hand, if a downloadable, streamable master-quality format were to become ubiquitous, it might actually encourage better recordings. Who knows?
... that any storage format would motivate anyone to improve recording quality if they weren't already of a mind to do so. We've had improvements in recording formats and equipment for years and years that have done nothing to improve the bulk of recordings.
In fact, the limitations of the LP format (side length, bass limits, overall modulation levels, etc.) actually forced engineers to pay extra attention to recording quality. We didn't have the loudness wars until some industry types figured out that the CD would support continuous max volume. Hence, the advantages of the CD actually enabled the loudness wars.
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