At the ripe age of 28, Jon Zimmer is sort of an old fogey. That is, he is obsessive about the sound quality of his music. A onetime audio engineer who now works as a consultant for Stereo Exchange, an upscale audio store in Manhattan, Mr. Zimmer lights up when talking about high fidelity, bit rates and $10,000 loudspeakers.Read the rest.
But iPods and compressed computer files — the most popular vehicles for audio today — are “sucking the life out of music,” he says.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
In Mobile Age, Sound Quality Steps Back
Interesting article here on the new culture of music listening in light of new technological changes in the past decade.
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Ah yes. Audiophiles and their $500 wooden volume control knobs and other related silliness.
And he's exactly right. Compressed music today is written for ipoddery and does not have the sound depth or complexity of earlier music. Many articles have been written on this subject.
Thus, not only is modern music strikingly deficiency in terms of artistic and musical quality, it's also deficient in terms of sound quality.
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