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This article hits close to home: before I became a programmer I worked as an audio engineer at a fledgling studio in my hometown. The amount of misinformation
by some-guy 11y ago
This article hits close to home: before I became a programmer I worked as an audio engineer at a fledgling studio in my hometown.
The amount of misinformation / junk-science in the audio world is preposterous. There's a religious-cult of an industry that feeds off the ignorance and placebos of its participants. I have many friends who swear by their What.cd 24/192 FLAC vinyl rips and spend hundreds of dollars on audiophile AC wall outlets. Not to say that there are no differences in high-end audio equipment, but so much of what's "good" is subjective.
- SSLy 11y agothis is the first mention of what.cd outside of the tracker scene i ever saw. funny when you think about it.
- lfam 11y agoIn the case of sites like what.cd, I think that FLAC 16/44 rips of CDs and vinyl are useful for creating distributed backups of our cultural corpus. But I agree that 24/192 FLACs of vinyl are ridiculous.
- some-guy 11y agoI agree, in fact I very much like the sound of vinyl, but to say it's more "accurate" or of higher fidelity and dynamic range than 16/44 is completely false.