The Art of Listening
data compression is ok for the personal music device
the problem is that there is detailing that is lost and
unrecoverable !!!
the metadata argument is lame
the consensus is that cd file parameters is too small 44.1/16
there is an audible difference when one encodes at 96/24
another argument is that most people are not really listening to the quality but quantity
or as Frank Zappa would say most people would not know good music if it bit them on the ass!
Well, the deep subject of speakers in a room, ahh!!!
it is even less tunable then a tone-arm _ cartridge_phono pre-amp are.
and today I am going to “do” the room,
sweep tones and FFT _oh boy_ with a “spl” meter side dish,
it’s my birthday and I’ll tune if I want to !!!
Alright, I was quite excited to be turned on to this conceptual movement from a posting on the mio users support group.
“The concept of stereo sound recording and playback” starts the page entitled We support Real Stereo. Yes a group of like minded comrades!
Now I need to get the first release from SoundKeeper Records. The review from the Real Stereo of the first release has me more enthused about my growing audio career, Long Run Records, which has been founded with this same aesthetic, and the equipment choices I made closely duplicates that of Soundkeeper’s.
This deja vu experience is a vindication of my choices and direction. There are those times when this feeling helps. …LIKE NOW!!!
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...
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.
