Death of High Fidelity

[AnalogDigit]

I found an article on the death of high fidelity on the Internet. I thought I would share it with everyone:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1952609/posts

[vinyldavid]

3/4" analog tape? That's a new one....

hmmm.....This is what I have been saying since I was 9.

[Geek]

Yup! We're going back to the fidelity of a wax cylinder.... only in 24 bit accuracy to get those aliasing artifacts just perfect :D

Personally, I find it impossible to listen to Bach at 128K :tears:

Cheers!

[theWB]

Here's a link that gives you a good example of what happens to the music when producers make it louder.
http://funl.blogspot.com/2007/06/loudness-war.html

[dnewma04]

I'm pretty sure these have been linked and discussed ad nauseam, on these and every other forum on the net. Extreme levels of compression and normalization is no good and has gotten worse over the years. I've bought records and CDs that are affected. IMO, they should replace the "Loudness" button on electronics with a new version still called loudness that compresses music. I would be about a 1.00 investment and allow good recordings to be preserved and played as intended by the artist/engineers, not the record company.

[basite]

It's a pity that alot of modern (mostly popular music, which also includes rock and hip hop...) is influenced by the loudness war.

I have actually refused to buy some cd's with really good music on them, just because the recording quality was SO bad. I agree, most people play their albums on cheap speakers, in noisy envorniments (or on their Ipod, with stock headphones), so they can't hear quiet parts, but please, why do we audio enthousiast have to suffer from that?

and it's one thing to maximize the sound, so it sounds louder, but it's one step worse to actually do that so hard, that the entire album sounds disorted (see: the white stripes' last album). I simply cannot think that anyone could stand listening to this!

of course, there are good recordings too, but just a small minority, and that ain't gonna change the music appreciation of the masses...

keep them spinning,
Bert.