19 Oct
2011
19 Oct
'11
9:23 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:00:02PM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
That's not necessarily surprising and has less to
do with actual quality
of reproduction than with comfort. Many of us who grew up with
LPs and tapes had difficulty adapting to digitally reprroduced music (I
confess I still get a warm fuzzy feeling with listening to a very
slightly worn vinyl record). So, can we really be surprised that people
who probably have been listening to MP3 encoded music since the age of
ten or younger feel a degree of discomfort or alienness when listening
to uncompressed audio?
There's another dimension to it: most of today's popular music
exists *only* in its recorded form, there's no 'real' version
to compare with. This goes as far as a live performance being
expected to sound like the mp3. And even in classical music,
some people are now expecting the reverb in a concert hall to
come mainly from the front.
Ciao,
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FA