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. > > 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
As usual, over-generalised nonsense. I have many, many DVD-A recordings, of which only 1 (Fragile by Yes, annoyingly) suffers from the over-compressed dynamic range of "loudness wars". -- 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) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688
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