Articles like this one in Rolling Stone Magazine, who have always been known to be really "with it" speculate about the so called volume wars.
These "wars" that producers and labels are supposedly in to fight for our attention are causing mastering engineers to squeeze out much of the sonic detail and frequency content by over using compression. This "battle" that is raging is apparently due to the fact that so many people are downloading their music as MP3 files and the file format has a limited bandwidth.
O.K. so we're all clear on this concept that is being put out there just as we are all clear that the MP3 is the devils tool, blah blah blah.
So what I don't understand is why the fuck anyone would even care when the standard for compact discs hasn't improved since they introduced it in 1982 (yep nineteen eighty two) -check wikipedia and see what they say.
16 bit is shit, it wasn't good sounding when it came out and the only reason people aren't complaining now is that their fucking ears have been scared from listening to music in this crumpled up tin woodsman kind of way.
-Generations of mutants can't tell that they aren't hearing most of what they paid for and should be hearing.
So next time some duche bag brings up your stolen MP3s or how loud the new TJ Blowyouz disk is, you just tell em that you are waiting for a higher bit rate before you commit to dancing.
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>>So what I don't understand is why the fuck anyone would even care when the standard for compact discs hasn't improved since they introduced it in 1982 (yep nineteen eighty two)<<
ReplyDeleteSure it has: DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD. People stayed away in droves.
I think the failure of these formats has more to do with the sales strategy.
ReplyDeleteI would guess that if Sony and Phillips decided to unify the CD & DVD format by first concentrating on the hardware and then slowly released the software into the market it might be accepted better.