[BC] Making music worth listening to

[Dana Puopolo]

Perhaps the MP3 (with it's rolled off high end response over 10 k) is less
edgy then the (too bright) CD?

-D


I often wonder if this kind of sound is what unconsciously impels 
people not to buy CDs. Yet the illegally filed-shared MP3s have been 
subject to the same mastering and this doesn't keep people from 
downloading them. So I'm not ready to say that current mastering 
practices are what are driving people away from paying for music. 
After all, people continued to listen to FM radio in New York City in 
the '80s when over-aggressive processing made the sound much worse 
than most of today's "hot" CDs. (I still remember visiting NYC around 
that time and being amazed to find only two stations that I could 
listen to for more than 30 seconds before I felt an overwhelming 
compulsion to turn off the radio.)