Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Where Are They Now? Yes news: http://www.bondegezou.co.uk/wh_now.htm
Blogdegezou, the accompanying blog: http://bondegezou.blogspot.com/
I personally know some genuine hard-core audiophiles with a five digits-worth equipment and custom listening rooms, and they never debate the formats. For them a properly mastered CD, quality vinyl or uncompressed file offer negligible superiority over one another, because the real bang is in their top-shelf hardware.
I was once invited to a listening session and really could not tell a difference between one and another, perhaps because the sound quality was unbelievably good in either case. They played me Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition (ECM) from CD and vinyl, and I could hear the timbre of each drum, a slight vibration of bass strings, as if I had been in studio with the band. According to them the format wars are for the folks who cannot afford real top gear, so they compare inferior components (or lousy masterings) mistaking their limitations for the (imaginary) deficiencies of a given medium.
I am totally out of my depth with those guys, theoretically and financially, so I merely focus on different masterings/mixes (if available) to find an optimal sound on my basic set-up, once upon a time adding or replacing one budget component with another. CDs sound just fine enough to me as vinyl would have done if I collected it instead.
Last edited by Jay.Dee; 08-13-2019 at 02:41 AM.
I too have no real stereo anymore and I'm constantly mobile as well... so phone is my big listening station - or my desk at work on my PC. I appreciate digital accessibility bigtime - vinyl went away for me long ago - sold it all. No room either. Bandcamp has been amazing for me.
RED ALERT!! WE HAVE A DOWNLOAD-ONLY SITUATION INVOLVING A NEW EP FROM THANK YOU SCIENTIST.
SEND OUT THE DOWNLOAD-ONLY PUNISHMENT SQUAD! MISCREANTS ARE CHARGED WITH NOT PROVIDING ADEQUATE WARMTH AND SOUNDSTAGE.
https://thankyouscientist.bandcamp.c...oom-studios-ep
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
If a release is download-only, then what are you supposed to fondle?
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I always thought reel to reels sounded best. Do people still listen to that format or is that really a thing of the past?
Haven’t you ever heard of Air Fondling?
Open reel never really caught on because it was a pain to use. One had to manually thread the tape through one's machine, like the AV geeks in school everyone made fun of. Cassettes were preferred due to their ease of use, despite their inferior sound quality. Similarly, VHS won over the far superior Betamax because people were too lazy to change tapes midway through a movie.
BTW: in school, I thought I was a real bad ass running film projectors. I was oblivious to how geeky it actually was.
Last edited by progmatist; 08-13-2019 at 04:02 PM.
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