[Audio Empire]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:57:18 -0800, Rockinghorse Winner wrote
(in article ):

* It may have been the liquor talking, but
bob wrote:

On Jan 25, 10:15=A0am, Audio Empire wrote:

Since it is so easy to make great-sounding CDs, and I would think that it
would take more time and effort to screw one up, my only conclusion would
have to be that for some reason, this (seemingly) industry-wide practice =
of
giving us less than they can and calling it more must be on purpose. OTOH=
, I
can't think of a single reason why this should be so, can you?

One reason that's been suggested is that they are optimizing for the
earbud listener, not the owner of a good in-room audio system.

Of course, it could also just be simple incompetence.

bob

Unless you are in the possession of evidence to the contrary, never
attribute to maliciousness what is most likely incompetence.

You can also add the low quality of popular music itself. Remember when
the ability to play instruments was a cause for pride among fans?

Unfortunately, care put into playing and recording is the province of
eccentrics and old farts these days. I am limited to listening to a very
small sample of modern commercial pop and unsigned acts. I don't expect the
situation to change until 'quality' becomes a musical value again.



*R* *H*


Well put - mostly- but keep in mind that "old farts" are likely to be the
ones who remember when quality was a virtue to covet and aspire to. Young
people today have little concept of what constitutes quality because there is
so little of it in their iPod/MacDonalds/Twilight Saga worlds. Especially
when it comes to the SOUND of music.