[BC] Making music worth listening to

[cldube]

I'll not only agree with that Steve, but at the risk of the wrath of this 
list will add that this is not
one generation, but a constant. Growing up in the 70's and 80's I saw far 
more
Capehart, Clarinette, Emerson stereos than anything approaching a MacIntosh.
In 1978, if you went "hi-fi" you had a Pioneer SX-580. The "audiophiles" has 
a Marantz 2245.
Anyone who owned Wharfdale speakers and a Dynaco Amplifier that I met back 
then was over 60.
High-fi was a hobby, like ham radio. More people bought CBs back then. More 
people have cellphones now.
Just an observation.

Does this mean that we should produce garbage on the air? Of course not. But 
I think we also should let
go a bit of the "golden age" thinking about audio playback. And get some 
folks to loosen up on dynamics! :)

Chuck Dube


From: SteveOrdinetz <hykker at wildblue.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Making music worth listening to

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
>snip<
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