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Comment on Digital Sound by 20 Reasons Why WAV Is Better Than MP3 ( By Silent Code ) - Audio Animals

20 Reasons Why WAV Is Better Than MP3 ( By Silent Code ) - Audio Animals — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:44:23 +0000

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Comment on Sound or Vision? by huub

huub — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 05:16:35 +0000

Mr Greg, you said it right.
I am retired, sit back in my easy chair, put on the HiFi, lean back and all I hear is overcompressed/limited/clipping shit.
(few exeptions of course)
Lucky to have conserved all the vinyl from 1955 on, even some 78′s. Until mid sixties and before stereo and solid state amps listening fatigue didn’t exist. After heavy compression introduced from the sixties recorded music went hill down, year by year thing were getting worse.

Most new CD’s from early 90′ies on don’t give music, it’s noise.

It’s nice to know there is someone out there who knows too.
Greeting, Huub.

Comment on Sound or Vision? by John

John — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:32:03 +0000

I would chose visual commuication, words can be conveyed visually, through sign language printed word etc. The visual communication would be more important to me. ALthough I woud probably pass on the trip.

Comment on Sound or Vision? by Donald A. Sime

Donald A. Sime — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:06:01 +0000

“diminished to such an extent that small low fidelity speaker systems, reproducing hyper compressed recordings, often from a poor resolution, low bit rate MP3 format”

It is sad, I sometimes wonder why I want to build a “good” pair of speakers with the new material almost all compressed to nothing and no-one to listen with me who seems able to notice the audible difference between “Hi-Fi” and HTiB

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Comment on Sound or Vision? by Greg Myles

Greg Myles — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:35:23 +0000

Digital Mastering.
Mastering originally is to transfer a a finished mixed recording to vinyl, Radio or other medium.
Without going into many details, mastering to vinyl is an art in itself and requires a full understanding of the machinery used to cut a record to be able to do the task.
Mastering for radio playback required a knowledge of what can & can’t be transmitted. The analogue radio only has a small dynamic range, so the signal required compression to reduce it’s dynamic range so it could be aired with less distortion.
Now days we typically record & mix digitally & mastered digitally.
All the same medium.
This negates the original use of mastering.
What goes to the mastering engineer is typically the finished product from the studio how the artist likes it.
Mastering Engineers & there clients have developed a thing called volume wars, where they’re hyper compressing tracks so that they can be heard above other tracks & can be played back on small sound system with limited capability.
This comes at a sacrifice.
The dynamic range is reduced dramatically.
So we then play such a track on a sound system capable of full range & full dynamics & we still miss out on the full glory of what came out of the studio.
I believe that compression should be at the playback device end and not at the mastering stage.
Small devices, (iphones etc) should have there own compression built in and most do these days anyway.
Medium size devices will need less compression than smaller devices.
Large systems capable of full range and full dynamics need no compression at all.
Then when I listen to a track on a decent sound system the track will sound as good or better than what came out of the studio.
Then mastering will only be required to tweek the track in a better listening environment than the studio it was mixed in.
Otherwise it will be redundant.
If producers & artists & manufacturers can get there heads around that then the world will be safer from bad sound.
The same applies to live sound systems.
Feel free to ask any questions.

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Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:55:57 +0000

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Comment on Sound or Vision? by Myron Borge

Myron Borge — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:22:12 +0000

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Comment on Sound or Vision? by Greg Myles

Greg Myles — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 06:27:23 +0000

You should feast your ears on some Lenard Audio Systems.
I’ve had bands go on in the dark because I never bothered to switch the lights on & then I’d switch the lights on so the band can see what they’re doing. I’m a sound engineer. The best live gigs don’t have much of a light show on offer.
My job is to get the music out of PA.
I’m lucky.
I get to hear music in full dynamics and in full range.
Wether analogue or digital.
A good 24bit digital audio device or file is as good as any analogue device or recording.
And a good analogue device or recording is as good as any digital device or file.
It’s capturing the music that counts when recording and mixing.
Volume wars (hyper compression) is terrible thing.
It should be more about getting more dynamic than less dynamic.
All you need to do is turn it up on playback.