mortslim;545523 Wrote: > The New York Times just published an article on many of the issues > mentioned in this thread: > > "In Mobile Age, Sound Quality Steps Back" > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/business/media/10audio.html > > An interesting point made in the article is that audio engineers are > now not even creating good quality recordings anymore: > > "So audio engineers, acting as foot soldiers in a so-called volume war, > are often enlisted to increase the overall volume of a recording. ' > > > So even if you buy a socalled hi def recording, the engineering process > many times has messed up the mastering to such an extent that it is not > even worth listening to on a high quality playback system. > > See also the reader's comments to the article that sheds more light on > the subject. > http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/business/media/10audio.html?sort=oldest
Mortslim, taking quotes out of context changes their meaning. What was actually written was:" Pop artists and their labels, meanwhile, shudder at the prospect of having their song seem quieter than the previous song on a fan’s playlist. So audio engineers, acting as foot soldiers in a so-called volume war, are often enlisted to increase the overall volume of a recording." If you read the article carefully and in context, it is clear that the article is referring to and generalizing about popular music, and not jazz and classical. So the conclusion: "So even if you buy a socalled hi def recording, the engineering process many times has messed up the mastering to such an extent that it is not even worth listening to on a high quality playback system." Isn't backed up by the article. I think that conclusion is more of a product of your mission to try and convince us all that hi-res files are pointless, in spite of many examples we can hear that prove otherwise. In addition, much of the article deals with lossy compression (and I'm not sure the author clearly understood the difference between "volume compression" and "lossy compression" in files). Interesting article as far as it goes, but it certainly doesn't shed any new light on the topic of hi-res files. -- firedog Tranquil PC fanless WHS server running SqueezeServer; SB Duet through Empirical Audio Pace Car; MF X-150 amp, MF V DAC3, Devore Gibbon Super 8 Speakers; Mirage MS-12 sub; Dual 506 + Ortofon 20 (occasional use); sometimes use PC with M-Audio 192 as digital source. SB Boom in second room. Arcam CD82 which I don't use anymore, even though it's a very good player. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ firedog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
