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

[Florin Andrei]

Cory K. wrote:
> Sad article on the state of production and how undiscriminating/ignorant
> consumers are killing fidelity.
> 
> http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity/print

The trend is not recent and it has been discussed over the last few years.

My take is that it's one of the last side-effects of the current music 
industry dominated by a few giant corporations. Once the dinosaurs die 
off, there will be an explosion of diversity fueled by Internet-based 
distribution. Those who want crap will find crap by the boatload. Those 
who want better stuff will also be able to find it. The bazaar-ification 
of the international music scene will allow all those different things 
to coexist.

By that time the Internet will be fast enough to allow 24 bit 192 kHz 
files to be the standard "lossless" distribution media, which will put 
to rest all issues related to the quality of the media per se. Indeed, 
we're pretty much already there - this is driven by the needs of the 
video distribution, with its much bigger needs for bandwidth.

So, cheer up, it will get worse before it gets better.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/