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. Randy Merrill, an engineer at Masterdisk, a New York City company that creates master recordings, said that to achieve an overall louder sound, engineers raise the softer volumes toward peak levels. On a quality stereo system, Mr. Merrill said, the reduced volume range can leave a track sounding distorted. Modern recording has gone overboard on the volume, he said." 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mortslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688
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