"The Death of High Fidelity" Sad, sad, sad...

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Saturday 29 December 2007, Cory K. wrote:

> Sad article on the state of production and how undiscriminating/ignorant
> consumers are killing fidelity.

It's funny reading this with the JAMin tutorial in mind.  That tutorial is all 
about trying to make everything loud, just like the article hates.

I agree about MP3s too.  I just don't get the age of people walking around 
with little things shoved in their ears, listening to hollowed out tracks 
that have sacrificed their core in the name of lossy compression.

Especially now that so many people are foregoing CDs completely, and just 
buying MP3s.  They never have a chance to hear what the music wanted to be.

Of course you can make all kinds of arguments about how true audiophiles still 
do everything the analog way, and/or the lousy 44.1 kHz/16-bits of CDs just 
isn't high enough, etc.

I guess there's a certain element of where to draw the line here, but it's 
depressing how far down the line is trending these days.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre