It definitely is when it happens to one of your favorite singers. I think this is the third time one of my favorite singers has produced music that is almost unlistenable. Such is the case with Ingrid Michaelson's latest album, It Doesn't Have to Make Sense. Check out this track. It starts off kind of OK but then it goes downhill and fast after 1:30:
By 1:45 I can't listen to it anymore. It is so distorted. It is as if they took a clock radio, played it at full volume and recorded the output of that.
Is there this much incompetence out there? This is not just loudness compression. It just flat out super distorted.
And what about her? Does she not have ears good enough to tell what got produced at the end?
I mean it is not like it sounds good on a headphone either. That is where I first heard the problem. I thought it was the headphones (IEMs) first but now confirming on my Stax headphones, and external DAC, it is just as hopeless.
Sigh. It guess "it doesn't have to make sense" as she says.
By 1:45 I can't listen to it anymore. It is so distorted. It is as if they took a clock radio, played it at full volume and recorded the output of that.
Is there this much incompetence out there? This is not just loudness compression. It just flat out super distorted.
And what about her? Does she not have ears good enough to tell what got produced at the end?
I mean it is not like it sounds good on a headphone either. That is where I first heard the problem. I thought it was the headphones (IEMs) first but now confirming on my Stax headphones, and external DAC, it is just as hopeless.
Sigh. It guess "it doesn't have to make sense" as she says.
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