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In Reply to: RE: Where has everyone gone?? posted by GregS on January 07, 2017 at 19:06:40
I think most digitally-sourced music (including remastered pop/rock classics) is processed beyond repair. Dynamic compression, Auto-Tune, real-time lossless playback, etc. It just won't inspire people to reproduce it with higher fidelity. Even though most people aren't aware of the music's compromised state.
The mere concept of high-fidelity sound reproduction is becoming extinct amongst the younger population, simply because hardly anyone experiences it to any appreciable degree.
There is no mainstream music in recent time which was recorded at a level of (vinyl) Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons, Dire Straits, Steely Dan, or even Fleetwood Mac..... There was a time where playing familiar hit tunes through a high-quality system for the first time was an epiphanic experience, which inspired us to acquire quality sound reproduction. But there has been no mainstream music in maybe the past 15 years that can truly evoke such experience for today's young consumers.
I believe this is why the interest in high-end audio has declined drastically in the past 15 years.
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I see from audio magazines that there is more expensive high end audio products on the market than ever before ,with all the debate on the loss of interest in Hi-Fi especially by the younger generation, who is buying these expensive items,in the UK there are 6 or more Hi-Fi magazines full of adverts, so somebody somewhere must be buying or the Hi-Fi mags & manufacturers could not exist.
Edits: 01/11/17
Not sure that is entirely correct. For example, the Drive-By Truckers recorded many of their albums in analog (using 2 inch, 16-track open-reel tape recorders). SQ is pretty good. They are a pretty well known band although admittedly not as prolific as the bands you mentioned.
Never heard of the Drive-By Truckers..... I'll check the band out.... Thank you much!
That was why I mentioned mainstream bands of the past.... Most people in the 1970s heard of Alan Parsons and Fleetwood Mac..... Yet like the Drive-By Truckers, there were also some great not-so-well-known acts like Camel and Gentle Giant......
I think of great recent acts like Steven Wilson and Dream Theater.... But unlike Steely Dan, you won't find a lot of people familiar with these acts. The mainstream treats these acts like they don't even exist.
Try their album "A Blessing and a Curse."
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