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RE: Many words have baggage attached

Posted by rivervalley817 on December 31, 2020 at 10:44:35:
I think that the vinyl pressing issue will get handled as more $$ flows to it. I keep hearing & reading reviews of new LP's without mention of the mfg. problems you cite [my T/T is mothballed for the time being] and as I stated, there are those involved in music production from the recording process to end point who hold forward looking vision with historical values on quality coming on line all the time

just look over your own post Todd, you shed 40 years of pessimism as you typed it out! you went from 50 years of problems to citing 2010 as pivotal for a lot of them ... for instance the auto-tune / compression issue doesn't surface in new jazz recordings / LP's or otherwise ... I've read complaints of auto-tune even invading entire classical recordings, but those seem to be confined to remasters and fading because of the backlash

as to the OP hi-lighting an opinion piece on terminology for gear / music enthusiast needing another name besides 'audiophile' ... any word can be twisted into other meanings by vernacular; should there be a 'new' term for audiophile what would prevent that word from carrying the same 'baggage' since it's describing the same thing besides 'nothing'? a rose is a rose eh?

now, get off my artificial low maintenance lawn you curmudgeon!!

with regards,