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Oddly enough, your first analogy there nicely explains why I find this issue a big yawn. I cannot in a million years imagine having as much interest in sound q
by colomon 15y ago
Oddly enough, your first analogy there nicely explains why I find this issue a big yawn. I cannot in a million years imagine having as much interest in sound quality as in lyrics.
That's not to say I don't like good sound quality. But an awful lot of my listening is to 30-90 year old recordings, many recorded in less than ideal conditions. I listen because the music is brilliant. I can't imagine preferring to listen mediocre musicians because their recording is perfectly engineered and reproduced.
My guess is most of us over 30 have spent most of our lives watching movies in less-than-ideal conditions. Today I don't feel any particular urge to upgrade from DVD. But I'd dearly love to upgrade the writing on most new movies I see...
- afterburner 15y agoI used to feel like you did about audio quality (and I don't even care about lyrics, I really am listening for the music itself), but once you get a nice set of speakers and balance them properly (preferably using one of the auto-balancing receivers that use a microphone and test signals), it really does make you appreciate it more. I find myself wanting to listen to music more when I hear on my nice speakers at home as opposed to my crappy-but-comfortable earphones at work. However, I am listening mostly to music from the last 5-10 years, so there is that.
- philwelch 15y agoMusic from the last 5-10 years is largely damaged by the loudness war (which is a pity, since there's been a lot of good music in the last ten years!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
- afterburner 15y agoMaybe so, but I the point the parent comment was making was that the difference was in recording quality (especially since the parent comment referred to the quality of recordings up to 90 years old).
- JonnieCache 15y ago>Music from the last 5-10 years is largely damaged by the loudness war It really depends on who you're listening to. For example, this LP and ones like it will reduce you to tears of joy on expensive headphones, and as you can see from the waveform nobody is telling amon tobin how to compress his tunes: http://soundcloud.com/amon-tobin/amon-tobin-isam/ http://soundcloud.com/amon-tobin/amon-tobin-isam/ Especially check out the second track, which starts at around 6:40. Although that is obviously a 128 kbit/s preview stream. Get the CD.
- mambodog 15y agoOnly if you're listening to Top 40 hacks.
- Nick_C 15y agoAnd also the incredibly over-mastered bass in the last 15 years. I believe it started because people wanted their car stereo to sound like their home CD, so sound engineers started to over-emphasise the bass, to bias it for radio, which led to a vicious circle. I can't listen to anything post 2000 on my very good home sound system because the bass is so over-emphasised.