The death of hi fidelity

[Dude111]

An interesting and QUITE TRUE article!

http://web.archive.org/web/20081220...ews/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity

9 pages and WELL WORTH IT!!

 

[jeremyjustic]

Another article on "the loudness war"...... this was old news 7 years ago when the article came out.

 

[crouse]

I'm afraid the loudness war has been lost for the foreseeable future. Not only do people do most of their listening on portable devices, those same portable devices are used in such a way as to make really paying attention to the music impossible. People text, listen to music and attempt to converse with the people with them at the same time. Everyone is becoming attention deficit. When I was a teenager, I would sit and listen to albums with my eyes closed (still do) and the variety of loudness, rhythm and pitch were endlessly fascinating and emotionally charged. And I wasn't alone. It seemed everyone did that. I can't imagine a teenager today doing that.

 

[mikewish]

I was watching the mixing computer at the One Republic concert at BOK in Tulsa a few weeks ago. The graph showing the FR band on the mixer's screen had a huge plateau below 150 Hz. The rest of the graph showed a continual taper down all the way to the high frequency range. I even hear progressive bluegrass events with the same curves. Why do you need very loud sub-woofers for what used to be acoustical performances?

 

[Mister Pig]

I'm afraid the loudness war has been lost for the foreseeable future. Not only do people do most of their listening on portable devices, those same portable devices are used in such a way as to make really paying attention to the music impossible. People text, listen to music and attempt to converse with the people with them at the same time. Everyone is becoming attention deficit. When I was a teenager, I would sit and listen to albums with my eyes closed (still do) and the variety of loudness, rhythm and pitch were endlessly fascinating and emotionally charged. And I wasn't alone. It seemed everyone did that. I can't imagine a teenager today doing that.

When I was a teenager, I would sit and listen to albums with my eyes closed (still do) and the variety of loudness, rhythm and pitch were endlessly fascinating and emotionally charged. And I wasn't alone. It seemed everyone did that.

How would you know? Your eyes were closed.

PS Just because teenagers don't do things the way you guys did in the olden days doesn't mean they dont get the same enjoyment out of their music...or that it is not as important to them.

Regards
Mister Pig

 

[Mister Pig]

Ya its really sad....... They dont know what beautiful sound ANALOG MEDIA can give

Really? It has to be analog media? That is too bad because my digital media sounds really nice, and its music from small artists who cannot spend the money to release their work on analog media.

This is a very important topic really. Digital media has given the small artists a way to get their music out in a way that was cost prohibitive before. I listen to a lot of modern folk music, and appreciate that I can get artists work in general, in whatever media is available.

Regards
Mister Pig

 

[Pio1980]

If High Fidelity equates to open space stereo critical/pleasure listening, perhaps it's not as prevalent as it once was. I don't generally equate Hi Fi to background music at any spl whether open or earfones.



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[Dr. Morbius]

...... They dont know what beautiful sound ANALOG MEDIA can give

Oy! I give up. I may as well toss my CD collection and delete all of my music files as I obviously don't get it.

 

[noogies]

PS Just because teenagers don't do things the way you guys did in the olden days doesn't mean they dont get the same enjoyment out of their music...or that it is not as important to them.

And yet, somehow I suspect they don't ... and it isn't.

This doesn't make them bad people, though.

 

[Sam Cogley]

And yet, somehow I suspect they don't ... and it isn't.

I somehow suspect that you're wrong.

 

[titanstats]

Hifi is alive and well at my place, in plenty of formats...

 

[cratz2]

Oy! I give up. I may as well toss my CD collection and delete all of my music files as I obviously don't get it.

+1.

Over the last week, various members have tried to convince me that I should ditch LPs, CDs, high res digital files, FM and HD radio. I guess that leaves me with 8-track tapes which were, of course, the pinnacle of hi fi... I suppose.



Sometimes it sucks being so rational and just enjoying the music.

 

[Mystic]

It's all Apple's fault.

 

[Dr. Morbius]

+1.

Over the last week, various members have tried to convince me that I should ditch LPs, CDs, high res digital files, FM and HD radio. I guess that leaves me with 8-track tapes which were, of course, the pinnacle of hi fi... I suppose.



Sometimes it sucks being so rational and just enjoying the music.

Hey sonny, back in my day ...!

 

[Sam Cogley]

Hey sonny, back in my day ...!

Ageist BS threads appear here at the rate of 2-3 per week, it seems.

 

[cratz2]

Ageist BS threads appear here at the rate of 2-3 per week, it seems.

They sure do but don't hold those poster's youth and inexperience against them.

 

[OldSkool]

 

[Pio1980]

The Walkman player was a pet project of the founder of Sony. It was a pretty big deal when it came out, a real personal stereo in your hand or on your belt.

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[aidynphoenix]

i'm not scared.

 

[asciibaron]

i'm in my early 40's and have two kids, one is a teenager. the teen listens to music on his phone and mp3 player. at his age it's all about matching what his contemporaries are doing and that's what they all do. when i was his age, we had records, so i bought and listened to records. then CD's came out and i bought and listened to CD's.

right now i'm in my living room listening to a mix of music from the 1960's thru to 2014 via my raspberry pi running rune audio. i have the lights off, a candle lit, and the music at a modest level. i have to remind myself to stop multi-tasking. to take time to enjoy music, to enjoy food, to enjoy life.

my kids won't have the childhood or teenage years i had, just like i didn't have the same experience that my father had. that's just the way it is, good or bad. we can't shape their childhood to be like ours, that time is past, they have to live in their now. i do hope my kids take time out to reflect and loose themselves in music. it's important for the soul.