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Ah, the convenience argument. The red herring of this age
by tomc1985 5y ago
Ah, the convenience argument. The red herring of this age
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoConvenience? 24 bit FLAC sent bit-for-bit perfect to my Burr-Brown converters and then to my Genelecs? This is better quality than anyone in the 1970s could have imagined [ EDIT: including the engineers in the studios where the music was recorded. ] Convenience for shopping? Well, perhaps. But it's about more than convenience. I discover more music, by more artists, than Tower or HMV could ever have introduced me too.
- NoPicklez 5y agoConvenience can drive accessibility and access to music, which is an enormous driving play in music.
- andrepd 5y agoNo, the availability argument. Even people who are dirt-poor (by developed country standards, of course) can have top-quality means of listening to and producing audio, thanks to computers, the internet, and Free Software. In the 1970s this was restricted to affluent people. So quite a narrow perspective to say things like that. We take it for granted but when I think about it I'm amazed that I can on a whim decide I want to listen to Beethoven and 10s later I'm listening to world-class musicians playing any piece I want.