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David Roussel"In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever"
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ken .Like it says - many examples, paradoxical intentions, killing the golden goose - "God is in the details. But there are no details anymore" -- Donald Fagan
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Loren LarkinDavid Bendeth, a producer who works with rock bands like Hawthorne Heights and Paramore, knows that...
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In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever ROBERT LEVINE
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The Death of High Fidelity In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever ROBERT LEVINE Posted Dec 26, 2007 1:27 PM Advertisement David Bendeth, a producer who works with rock bands like Hawthorne Heights and Paramore, knows that the albums he makes are often played through tiny computer speakers by fans who are busy surfing the Internet. So he's not surprised when record labels ask the mastering engineers who work on his CDs to crank up the sound levels so high that even the soft parts sound loud. Over the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed a
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The Death of High Fidelity In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever ROBERT LEVINE Posted Dec 26, 2007 1:27 PM Advertisement David Bendeth, a producer who works with rock bands like Hawthorne Heights and Paramore, knows that the albums he makes are often played through tiny computer speakers by fans who are busy surfing the Internet. So he's not surprised when record labels ask the mastering engineers who work on his CDs to crank up the sound levels so high that even the soft parts sound loud. Over the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed a
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The Death of High Fidelity
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08 Jan 08
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Jason CampbellThe tempting dangers of control over everything: why sound compression technology is ruining modern music for its listeners.
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Julia Lesage"In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever"; controversy continues around quality of MP3s; this goes beyond issue of sampling rate to discuss changes in recording style; very informative
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Over the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed and mastered — almost always for the worse. "They make it loud to get [listeners'] attention," Bendeth says. Engineers do that by applying dynamic range compression, which reduces the difference between the loudest and softest sounds in a song. Like many of his peers, Bendeth believes that relying too much on this effect can obscure sonic detail, rob music of its emotional power and leave listeners with what engineers call ear fatigue. "I think most everything is mastered a little too loud," Bendeth says. "The industry decided that it's a volume contest." Producers and engineers call this "the loudness war," and it has changed the way almost every new pop and rock album sounds. But volume isn't the only issue. Computer programs like Pro Tools, which let audio engineers manipulate sound the way a word processor edits text, make musicians sound unnaturally perfect. And today's listeners consume an increasing amount of music on MP3, which eliminates much of the data from the original CD file and can leave music sounding tinny or hollow. "With all the technical innovation, music sounds worse," says Steely Dan's Donald Fagen, who has made what are considered some of the best-sounding records of all time. "God is in the details. But there are no details anymore."
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02 Jan 08
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Mark RabnettDavid Bendeth worries that young listeners have grown so used to dynamically compressed music and the thin sound of MP3s that the battle has already been lost. "CDs sound better, but no one's buying them. The age of the audiophile is over."
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Stephen TurnerRolling Stone on the changes in the music industry that many say have ruined the sound of modern music. About how the use of iPods as the primary playback strips from the sound of tracks, and how technology is changing how music is recorded as well. Are M
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brucedavishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
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Avinash MeetooOver the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed and mastered — almost always for the worse. "They make it loud to get [listeners'] attention," Bendeth says.
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29 Dec 07
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Jimmy Baikovicius"God is in the details. But there are no details anymore." Human brains have evolved to pay particular attention to loud noises, so compressed sounds initially seem more exciting. But the effect doesn't last. "The excitement in music comes
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