[BC] Making music worth listening to

[SteveOrdinetz]

Could it be that we have a generation who has never heard 
good-sounding audio and doesn't know the difference?  MP3s sound OK 
on a cheap sound system, but play one on a good stereo and they sound 
like crap (and I'm talking artifacts, not simply rolled-off highs). 
OTOH, I don't know anyone under 50 who has a sound system that's much 
better than something you'd find at Walmart.

Foreign a concept as it is to many of us, most people only care that 
something sounds "ok", they're not into high fidelity.  They'll only 
notice when it sounds so awful as to be fatiguing.



At 05:07 PM 10/22/2007, Dana  Puopolo wrote:
>Perhaps the MP3 (with it's rolled off high end response over 10 k) is less
>edgy then the (too bright) CD?
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>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.)
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