An Illusion

Give us our music back. … ha ha ha

When has the musician ever owned the mechanical.
Does it not seem that once a machine captures a musician’s performance,
the duplication of appropriate materials is no longer controlled by the musicians interests.

When has the consumer’s interest really an issue???

the three minute pop song is here because
that is the amount of audio one side of a 78 rpm shellac disc could conatain …

It is all an industry based on Illusion…
I mean, would you want a Large Orchestra and The Who
playing in your living room, it is An Illusion...

Slurred

If in the course of “handling” audio, the electronics impart a coloration to the timbre of the musicality, has the audio been slurred??

What I getting at is … given that magnetic recording is non linear, owing in part to the magnetic hysteresis loop and the bias voltage and head gap / tape speed frequency limiting…

and the turntable has the riaa playback curve,
this standardized was in the early 1950’s … after over 60 years of every playback eq being unique.

So … maybe … there will be some _refined_ standards created for
audio playback levels within the digital media.

This is the reason for digital hard sound. Slamming the audio to the absolute edge.
using the old analogue sense for the new digital capacity is actually driving the d/a converters into distortion. Please recognize this.

Maybe what is wrong with cd sales is just this.
Hyper Compressed audio sucks
and why pay money for high quality files
when the Data Compressed _down-loadable_ files are
more than adequate for the Sound Quality being delivered.

Give us our music back.

Sound Quality

if the digital medium has less errors or colorations then analogue,

why do the commercial cd’s have to be smashed to the point of ugly artifacts??

here is a Dylan qoute on this

” You listen to these modern records, they’re atrocious, they have sound all over them. There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like — static. Even these songs probably sounded ten times better in the studio when we recorded ‘em.” Rolling Stone article.

starting…

well it is time for me to use this medium for postulating and exposing my sentiments concerning audio…

maybe it was bob dylans statement about how bad cd’s sound. something about how good it sounded in the studio but how that quality was lost in the “finished product” . HELL we are in a lot of trouble if he feels that way and can do nothing about it.

I mean Bob Dylan can not stop the brutalization of his own music…