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July 5, 2006
Imperfect Sound Forever
This article is an interesting, albeit long, read for any lurking audiophiles out there.
Posted by dberger at July 5, 2006 10:16 AM
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Oh, now this is just ironic.
I haven't bought a top 40 CD since grad school, and even then I had mostly small label stuff. Electronica (especially the various versions of trance and progressive house) have quite a range of sound -- especially when the song is synth heavy. Encoding to MP3 makes it all the more noticeable.
Reading the article, this makes sense. Most of the guys doing electronica are also doing their own mixing, producing, and engineering using their home studios and COTS software/hardware. Basically, they hand a CD-R over to someone and say "make n 12" versions of this and m CDs of that." This includes the bigger names like Fat Boy Slim (who uses an Atari 1040ST), Beck, and to a lesser extent, The Orb.
Dunno about music that fall out of these genres. CDs that fall into "rock" for lack of a better term tend be background music while working or stuff for the car so the environment/speakers don't do it justice to begin with. Can't comment on that. Probably worth pulling out a few CDs and listening to them at home to compare.
-Steve
Posted by: Steve S. at July 5, 2006 5:13 PM