Rant de jure' - New standard for audio quality. [message #60155] |
Sat, 12 November 2005 13:05 |
gene lennon
Messages: 565 Registered: July 2006
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oskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>"gene lennon" <glennon@NOSPmyrealbox.com> wrote:
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>>Over the years we have all seen the standards for audio go up and down
like
>>the waveform displays we spend so may hours staring at.
>>Who remembers the Walkman, or cassettes in general?
>>I always liked, “ I want my records to sound good when I play them on my
>>Nakamichi with the chrome button in”. This from a major label A&R “professional”.
>>In our world listening in a car or over the mono speaker on a Studer Two-Track
>>or over Auratones was always part of the process, but hopefully not the
>standard.
>>8 tracks.
>>Cassettes.
>>AM Radio.
>>Boom Boxes.
>>Silvertone Mono Record Players with 1Lb. Tone Arms and needles shaped like
>>old shoemakers awls.
>>It’s hard to argue that the average listeners standards have always been
>>fairly low.
>>Lately MP3s have been getting beat up a lot for being such a shit-poor
standard,
>>but actually MP3s can sound considerably better than anything on the above
>>list.
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>>With all the 192Khz, 32 bit recordings done on 64 bit processors using
64
>>bit mix engines, it’s some what
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