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In Reply to: It's Over posted by ZooDog on April 18, 2007 at 13:07:46:
Among the many conclusions to draw from this piece, the one that strikes me most is the portability thing. It's another version of music in the background: meaning that music is something to do other things to: work, walk around, drive. It's not something to sit down and listen to. That makes sense for most popular music, I guess. I have never been able to sit still very long with it, at least straight. Most of it belongs in a car, where some of it actually gets better. But portability has nothing to do with jazz or classical music. You will bump into people and telephone poles listening to it on the move.So what we're conceding here is that pop (rock, r&b, and the rest) are to govern how recorded music is sold. As they always have. It also probably says, without saying it, that jazz and classical music will remain the minor factors, numberswise, they have always been; and make their own way, gearwise. I think that can keep some boutique stuff -- well-made, wonderfully performing, expensive CDP's and turntables -- alive. But the big companies that depend on numbers will have to ride the new wave. We small dealers who can get by selling this gear in small numbers can stay alive while the Tweeters of the world die or move on.
As for jazz, god bless Mosaic, Blue Note, Concorde, ECM and the rest. And as for classical music, god bless Europe. God bless Hyperion, Chandos, Harmonia Mundi, Naive, Channel Classics, Calliope, Bis, Ondine, Dutton, Stradivarious, Opus 111, and the rest. And pray that Decca, Philips, and DG don't give up on us too soon - as Sony seems to have done. And also give thanks to Amazon (US, Canada, UK, and France), Archiv, and MDT who can still get the stuff to us.
No idea what my eleven-year old and the rest of his generation will do. Maybe they'll play music to each other.
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I would have to disagree with that conclusion. For the vast majority of people Classical and Jazz are the BACKGROUND music. Talk to any teen and they can rhyme off the lyrics of their favourite songs, dissect the meaning within their realm of ability, with ease. Kids are wired 24/7 with DAPs and this is a good thing in many ways for musical appreciation. I have a high end setup, but you I use my iPod the vast majority of the time because I use it as my front-end at work and at school. The few hours I get with my big rig at home would leave me destitute save for the likes of portable music servers.I would agree that today's music may, for the most part, not require high end rigs to sound their best, that is, a high end rig won't bring THAT much to the forum. However, everything is a stepping stone. Kids go from bubble gum pop to more mature pop, to indie music to classic rock, to blues and jazz and then to classical. There is a beautiful journey, a migration from immature music to the sublime and complex. Provided we have access to solid recordings and excellent playback gear, I see no reason to complain.
I grew up on rock ( as well other types of music ) and continue to enjoy ( mostly older) acts. Except for a small number of reissues ( Dire Straits,Eagles,Pink Floyd etc.) or the very few originally reasonably well recorded discs, I would never spend the money I have unless the majority of my listening was to jazz and classical.
I've actually heard new recordings in the car, liked them, only to find them so poorly recorded that I can hardly listen to them on my stereo.
I know there are those who say their stereo makes everything sound better. I've never figured out how acurately reproducing highly compressed, distorted sound faithfully serves any purpose other than making it obvious that it was engineered to sound best on a low resolution medium.I'm not judging the music, simply the recording.
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