Off topic
Talking about vinyls, I listen to very good
vinyl recordings with high/very high DR
about 85%. The rest, SACD, CD and digital downloads. More of the vinyl are MINT and they do not need to be cleanned with soft
(iZotope RX usually).
Almost 95%, with
acoustic instruments and
natural voices (without Autotune -vade retro satana).
One
key with the vinyl is that the
master is analog and
not digital. If the master is digital the sound is worse,
without life.
From the NYT article, comments:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/...-about-the-loudness-wars.html#permid=30514644
[
Bruce Rozenblit
Kansas City, MOFeb. 8
Times Pick
I'm an audio engineer. I don't make recordings, I make equipment. I can't listen to digital anymore, only vinyl. I have an original Rolling Stones album and the CD of it.
The vinyl sounds like there is real band playing in my house and the digital sounds like it came out of a machine, which it did.
The recording industry has killed fidelity and replaced it with pumped up noise. It's horrible.
People don't know what real music sounds like. Even in live venues, they compress it and pump it up and them play through horrible sounding class D amplifiers.
This excellent article provides graphical evidence of what many of us have known for years.
The record companies are butchering music. They have taken the soul out of it.
They have removed the need for a true high fidelity system which can reveal that emotional connection with the artist.
I have Johnny Cash's
The Man Comes Around. It's glorious. Cash was involved with the mastering. He was old school and knew how to master. The new guys don't have a clue and the old timers are dying out.
The music industry is doing to music what fast food did to cuisine. It's the lowest common denominator and it's all the same homogenize mediocrity.
They sell canned noise instead of artistic creativity. When my generation dies out, that will be the end of high quality music reproduction and the artistry it allows. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.
The public has no idea of what they are missing. ]
Btw, some days before the article, in diyaudio.com
xrk971 and I use the same analogy:
fast food.