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The problem with the music

There are lots of people who frequent this site that have spent significant amounts of money to buy the gear that they use to reproduce their music. I would never suggest that you should not have done that, but I wonder if the music industry is not working against you, or at least, not with you.

For the most part studios are using expensive gear to record with, but is it really all that good? Do the people doing the recording have good systems that can reproduce soundstage, detail and all the other things that audiophiles desire, or do they even care about playback?

I know there are labels that are sympathetic to our obsessions, but does Sony/Columbia, Mercury, or RCA etc. give a rats #$%&@ about what we want?

Recordings (digital) have gotten a lot better since the garbage released in the mid 80's. Some of them are even listenable! BUT lots of people are spending lots of money to get great music when the studios don't seem that interested in doing good recordings. Mike Large, director of operations for Real Worl Studios said "The aim of the music is to connect with you on an emotional level; and I'd be prepared to bet that the system you have at home does that better than any of the systems we make records on."

Do recording engineers even care about relating the emotion of the music, or are they just concerned about the mechanics?

What do you think, and can/ should anything be done about it?
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ben_campbell
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I think the point is Brian it's made to sound "powerful" on small speakers and the like-not sure exactly how that works but there is much talk of compression on here.

A good system when it seperates the sound makes it sound horribly mixed,muddy with the drums particularly affected.

I might be wrong but it's how I hear this album when I put it on my main system-it falls apart in a lot of places.

I think they did it for radio to be honest and I agree you should be able to hit both targets.
This album is as bad an example as I can find though the last Jayhawks record actually clipped out in places.
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onhwy61
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Ben Campbell's comments about the latest U2 release is an excellent example of what I meant when I said audiophile may not agree with the artistic choices made during the recording process. Believe it or not, it takes real skill to make that recording sound as loud and as big sounding as it is.
brianmgrarcom
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I gotcha Ben, no doubt some (maybe a lot) music is compressed.
slappy
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Cinematic, Sorry it took so long to get back, i wasnt around yesterday.

You totally misunderstood the point of what i said, so once again, nice try. I said nothing about all recordings being like crap, i was just wondering if some day they will stop caring because they feel it will all end up as MP3 anyways.

You are the only one stating stuff liek 80-90% of recordings, give it up, yer full of hot air and you know it.

its like talking to a brick wall

Anyways, im done with this thread, you totally hijcakced it, manipulated what was said to match what you wanted it to say, and are basically just making an ass out of yourself.
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