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The Death of High Fidelity
#189760 12/28/07 10:30 PM
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"Those who preach the myths of audio are ignorant of truth."
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chesseroo #189762 12/28/07 10:44 PM
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Yep. Sad but true.


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bridgman #189764 12/28/07 10:51 PM
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Very sad. That was an informative read. Thanks, Chess.


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St_PatGuy #189766 12/28/07 10:54 PM
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 Originally Posted By: St_PatGuy
Very sad. That was an informative read. Thanks, Chess.

Damn.
I hope i didn't water bucket anyone's thoughts on quality music still in the midst of holiday party season.



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Thanks for the read Chess. The subject material makes my Axioms weep.


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Re: The Death of High Fidelity
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I'm reminded of those action movie sequences that go on and on, like the last battle in "Transformers," and it stops being exciting. That's the impression I get about dynamic compression. Maybe that's why the car chase scene from "Bullitt" is so memorable--the rest of the movie's a chore to get through--the chase is the only exciting part.

I'm going to sit in silence for the next hour and then put on some popular music. Dynamic compression be damned!


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Re: The Death of High Fidelity
St_PatGuy #189770 12/28/07 11:04 PM
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Intensely compressed albums like Oasis' 1995 (What's the Story) Morning Glory? set a new bar for loudness; the songs were well-suited for bars, cars and other noisy environments.

This is what hit home to me.
I've ALWAYS thought this disc had alot of 'noise' on whatever system it was played. I liked the softer tunes but most of it provided ear fatigue. I just thought it was the music type but now i read this article and think more about the mixing of the sound.
It all makes sense.

Now and again a little Nickelback does this to me as well, but now and again i just like to crank up the noise and pick out the music in between.
Good tunes, poorly mastered.
Bastards.
\:\/

This quote does provide some amount of enthusiasm though:
"I find it quite interesting, and I think its instructive, that if you focus on one area of the music business — you could generally call it music for people over twenty-four — and you look at the last ten years and look at records that have come out of nowhere, that no one's putting any money behind and have takes off, the two things that come to mind are the Buena Vista Social Club and Norah Jones. And those records were made in the most old-fashioned ways you can imagine." — Joe Boyd, producer of several Richard Thompson albums and R.E.M.'s Fables of the Reconstruction

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Re: The Death of High Fidelity
chesseroo #189771 12/28/07 11:11 PM
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You know, I have that Oasis album on SACD--still sounds like junk. I wonder what made them decide to put that on a supposedly higher fidelity format?

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Good tunes, poorly mastered.
Bastards.


I am in complete agreement!


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Re: The Death of High Fidelity
St_PatGuy #189780 12/29/07 12:55 AM
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>>I hope i didn't water bucket anyone's thoughts on quality music still in the midst of holiday party season

Nah... I still have almost 600 LPs.

For anyone unsure what an LP is, let me know and I can post a picture of one ;\)

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Re: The Death of High Fidelity
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Thanks for the article.I am in complete agreement with it too.I have notice the difference in warmth and feeling of the sounds of cd's made over the past 10 or so years. Its too bad the youth of today, will not be able to experience the quality of music that we grew up with.Hopefully enough artists insist on quality produced cd's.in the future.

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