Re: Am I getting paranoid or is the begining of the end?

Alan White wrote:
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:26:38 +0100, Roderick Stewart
<rjfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


At the risk of repeating a conversation I think we've already had, why do you think it is nonsense? Classical music generally tends to be created from natural sounds, i.e. voices and acoustic instruments, which the listener could be expected to have heard in real life, and therefore recognise when they don't sound realistic. Of course some pop music does this too, but most of what I've heard in recent years seems to be either electronically generated or so highly processed as part of its production that it doesn't resemble any real acoustic environment I've ever heard, so I assume it isn't meant to sound real.
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This seems common sense to me.

To try to assess the reproduced quality of a source which has been
produced electronically is just not possible because the original
source hasn't existed in a form that can be heard. The closest you can
get is to compare the reproduced quality with what is heard from the
monitor loudspeakers in the recording suite. For most people that's
not possible.

So what.

I seem to remember arguments from pro DAB people on this newsgroup saying that most people don't sit in front of a hifi system trying to work out whether the music is high quality or not. (That is one part that I would agree with, if DAB was not so bad that you can not ignore the sh*te qulity)

To me the important factor is not necessarily whether the sounds are real, but more whether the sounds are actually pleasurable to listen to. Rough over compressed sounds are not pleasurable to listen to and that has nothing to do with whether I can compare them to the real world.

Richard E.
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