"Sam Byrams" wrote in message
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There will always be a hardcore group that wants, for lack of a better
term, "The ****":i.e. the genuine, unpolluted real article. That's why
there is-or should be-a serious audio business and then what they have
at WalMart.

How do you define "a serious audio business"?

Is seriousness a state of mind or a state of equipment? Can it be estimated
from the number of digits in the budget, or the number of decades in
continuous operation with no significant technical changes?

For those of you that get-and it's free, you should-"Tape op"
magazine, Walter Sear has a good interview in the current issue. Make
no mistake: Tape Op caters largely to the lo-fi, DIY, Pro Tools loving
segment of the recording industry/hobby.

Note gratuitous slam of more modern technology than the retro-tech of Walter
Sears.. Admittedly Pro Tools is pretty retro-tech all by itself, but
compared to Walter Sear's digs, its as modern as today's newspaper.

Nonetheless: Walter Sear has a nice tagline.

"The Recorded Sound Sucks-We're Trying to Make It Better"

If his web site is any indication of his thinking, his proposed solution
will be a return to the 70s and 80s.