[Chris K-Man]

On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 12:48:08 AM UTC-4, ye.com wrote:
I'm talking about what one would label as the pro world of recording of material for mass consumption.

Is there anything about a particular arena of recording - pop, classical, opera, TV news, film, etc. - whatever - that you find lacking compared to an earlier era despite all the technology? Or do you think audio recording is at its zenith now?
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I think our cultural 'zenith' was the years 1965 - 1985. The best movies, the best TV shows, some of the best books, and definitely, the best misic and best sound quality thereof. While digital audio is the most transparent format for capturing and playing back music, it has been abused terribly, by both engineers and their cloents, especially from the late 1990s to mid-last decade. And of course this led to the format being blamed, resulting in the renaissance of tried and true analog formats such as the vinyl LP.