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Jason Schofield

 

Post  Posted 8 Dec 2014 1:50 am    
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http://mic.com/articles/104250/what-the-internet-has-done-to-your-love-of-music

Is it just the compression or bit rate or a hundred more variables?

Great article non the less. The compression on modern pop is unbearable. More to come..
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Charlie McDonald


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Post  Posted 8 Dec 2014 6:11 am    
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It's true.
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Barry Blackwood


Post  Posted 8 Dec 2014 9:02 am    
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I love the sound of vinyl, but not the hiss, snap, crackle, and pop. Can we do something about that in this age of technology?

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Joachim Kettner


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Post  Posted 8 Dec 2014 9:11 am    
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hiss, snap, crackle, and pop

Sounds like shake, rattle, and roll, Barry.
I could go to full albums on YouTube and listen to a lot of stuff that interests me, but it just doesn't sound interesting enough, now I know why.
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Larry Carlson


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Post  Posted 8 Dec 2014 11:25 am    
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I have always been involved in music and loved it which explains my efforts in playing the guitar and lap steel.
However I have found myself listening to less and less recorded music because it was sounding flat or bland, it lost it's emotional dynamics.
As much as I like music, listening to recorded music doesn't hold my interest much any longer.
Now I may have an idea as to why.
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Ian

 

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Post  Posted 9 Dec 2014 2:33 am    
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Q: What's your favorite kind of music?

A: Live.
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Wayne Carver

 

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Post  Posted 10 Dec 2014 6:06 am    
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One thing he mentioned is people not listening to the whole song before clicking to the next. I don't believe the music quality of MP3's has as much to do with this as just the ability to switch to the next song.
I mostly listen to CD's and now that I have a remote, I find myself doing this. With vinyl there were only a few turntables available to let the listener do this. The same with taped music.
Therefore we usually listened to the whole album or at least half of it.
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Charlie McDonald


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Post  Posted 10 Dec 2014 7:47 am    
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It's the many digital spaces, interruptions in what was the vinyl or tape's constant flow--hearing Barbra Streisand breathing on her first albums.

Sound is constant; digital media has a different way.
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Les Cargill

 

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Post  Posted 10 Dec 2014 10:40 am    
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I can take a lowly guitar cable, plug it into a $500 USB2.0 DAW interface, run a 1kHz tone from the output to the input and the resulting recorded signal is -100(ish)dB noise and -100(ish)dB ( 0.00x % ) distortion.

This without even bothering with balanced connectors.
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Joachim Kettner


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Post  Posted 10 Dec 2014 12:03 pm    
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There's also a big difference in sound, depending in which country the records were pressed. It's a science of it's own.
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