andynormancx;630973 Wrote: > He starts off with this claim: > > "Digital audio mortally wounded recorded music's creative mojo in 1982, > and the record industry never fully recovered" > > ...
This is of course total twaddle. How did the breaking of the record companies and recording studios hegemony over who got to professionally record and publish music and who didn't ruin music? - quite the opposite in fact! Digital Audio (and later, the Internet) made it possible for all manner of folks to achieve something they would never have been able to do/allowed to do when recording cost $100-$1,000 an hour and publishing/distribution was a closed shop in practice. Sure, a lot of rubbish got/gets made, but that was also true when record companies ruled the roost... This isn't really a "hi-fi" discussion, but almost anyone can afford to do some pretty impressive quality recording these days - the equipment is cheap. Of course the old rules still apply; you DO need to know what you are doing and know how to record things properly. My point is that digital audio removed the cost barrier to ownership/access for great sounding gear. A £100 24/96 soundcard these days can easily outperform a £10k tape deck from the 1970's/80's. digital multitrack mixing with full automation can be had for somewhat less than the cost of a Neve or SSL console (£50k minimum!) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85280
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