On 02/27/2011 12:04 AM, MalcolmO wrote:
Hear, hear!
Today people get recording contracts based on how photogenic they are. Machines sing them into tune. AND THEN
Most
commercial recordings today are released in a form which is far less
than "16-bit" in quality - they have been deliberately compressed
during the mastering process to sound "louder". They've been quashed,
pummeled, clipped, gain-ridden, smelched, and squeezed down into a
tiny dynamic range.
And they wonder why we don't buy records!
I thought it may be interesting to suggest some pre-digital era albums that
were of better source quality than much of what gets put into 1's and 0's
these days.
How about, "Year of the Cat", by Al Stewart?
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