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In Reply to: RE: a GREAT TT/ARM/CARTRIDGE combo will beat a GREAT PC/DAC combo... posted by kuma on September 17, 2015 at 23:27:31
While there is still this sort of digital chicanery taking place, I'm afraid that properly audited and guaranteed hi-res music purchase has a loooooog way to go before getting acceptance in this house:
Track from Beck/Morning Phase (supposedly hi-res download, MP3 compression applied)>>>
Track from Beck/Morning Phase CD>>>
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
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I read the article.... This may seem whacked, but I believe a lot of producers and engineers reduce the music to "MP3" simply because it sounds better that way to them......... (And it might sound better that way to me.)
Edits: 09/19/15
Even digital producers. Visual and auditory. After too much time staring at pixels or listening to bits, my brain hurts and my soul sulks!
Baudrillard would have a field-day...
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
I think too many producers/engineers have been trying to put out stuff that fits the stereotypical mainstream audience instead of the best sound possible. And although I think going analog would help, a lot of these people would believe the target audience might get "bored" with it, relative to the loud, overprocessed products they're used to dealing with.
The problem isn't necessarily the target audience itself..... But the monolithic entertainment media, not the target audience, actually chooses what's "good" and what's not. (This problem started around 1969, and has gotten worse and worse, up to today. This is why a lot of garbage has been popular in recent time, while the truly good acts remain obscure.) And a lot of producers know what sounds good, but they know the mainstream entertainment culture would reject it. The audiophile community might scream until it's blue in the face, but that audience is just a drop in the bucket, relative to the mainstream.
that they might try something new (or old, like vinyl). But I've been wrong before! :^)
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Someone recently told me he was dumbfounded that rap music has remained popular..... I told him, as long as the network media touts how "great" something is, it will remain popular indefinitely..... It can be something even more hideous, it doesn't matter. (In social media, people take pride in their "rapping"..... Including a lot of people I like.... This is a real-life Emperor's New Clothes if there ever was one.)
Entertainment is closely related to politics..... People tend to believe consensus, whether real or contrived by the media. A lot of the garbage we hear is popular not because it sounds nice to the masses, but because the masses have been conditioned to believe if consensus likes it, it just *has* to be good. But as I stated many times, the popularity is being seeded by media execs, not consumers hearing it and liking it. And as I stated elsewhere, this was a shift in entertainment that took place around 1969. (I think the orchestral concerts off being taken off the air and Westerns being taken off the air is NOT a coincidence. I truly believe this was the start of a plan by the media to shape opinion, rather than merely reflect it.)
And like politics, what the entertainment community needs is its own version of Donald Trump..... Calling out the phonies for who they are, and getting real music back in the mainstream.
Thanks for the link. I like that site.
I will have this software by the end of the weekend. I'll update some album reviews I posted on Hi-Rez.
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Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
More examination can only be a good thing.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Why would they put an MP3 compression on a High res file?
Another thing I have noticed on recent remastered reissue is that often, it's worse than the original release. Why would they mess with the original balance when they are good?
I know where I am with AAA vinyl recordings. I even know where I am with AAD/ADD/DDD CD recordings. But hi-res files? I have no faith in the model at all - especially as there are so many CDs and records to collect.
Count me out.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
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