Can even a Novice hear differences in Sound Qualit


Just wanted to relate an experience I recently had with a friend of mine. Those that have read my Threads before, have heard me wax enthusiastically about a DIANA KRALL-The Look of Love-DVD Audio Disk. The Recording has a Multi-Channel Surround Sound version Recorded in 24-bit/96 kHz. The Disk is being played through a Pioneer DV-58AV Universal Player, connected to a SpaceTechLab A-102 Vacuum Tube Headphone Amp, Driving a pair of Grado RS-1 Headphones. Only having 2-Channel capability, the Pioneer can Downmix the Multi-Channel version to two. A 65 year old friend of mind, not an Audiophile with limited hearing, was given a chance to listen to this Recording. His jaw had dropped to the floor. After listening for five minutes, he took the Headphones off and said "why don't they make all of them sound as good"? This Man was unimpressed with the multiple 2-Channel SACD/2-Channel Hi-Rez DVD-Audio Disks that he has heard on this Pioneer. The only thing that I can say is "out of the mouth of Babes...."! Sorry to keep harping on the point, but I believe that this is the only solution to the lack of Harmonic Content on all 2-Channel Digital Recordings, no matter the sampling rate. I also believe that it is the only solution to closing the gap of Harmonic Content between Analog and Digital, minus the ticks and pops. It would be a damn shame to lose it!
pettyofficer
I give up! The Recording Industry is Steam-Rolling over Sound Quality, as the rest of us are wrapped up in petty bickering! I can just hear us complaining with each other as we all are being squeezed flatter than a pancake!
" Look, it's K-K-K-Kenny, coming to K-K-K-Kill me! "
I have never heard a more apathetic, and nit-picking bunch! Oh, it's just the Market! Oh, we are not the Demographic that the Recording Industry is interested in! It's a hopeless cause this, it's a hopeless cause that! As if we all existed in a vacuum, or perhaps the World exists. and we are the vacuum! If you want to suck, do it on your own time! Me, I am going to find some way of nailing the Recording Industries carcass to the wall! No more crappy sounding CD's, no more slightly better than crappy sounding SACD/DVD-Audio! Sound Quality has hit rock bottom, even the sound on movie DVD's sounds three times better than CD, or hasn't anyone noticed! If you want to create a Market that leaves everyone hungry and starving for Sound Quality, then attach a leash to your neck! Me, I am going down standing on two feet! I refuse to be the Recording Industries Dog to be kicked around like a Mutt! This is one Demographic that is going to take MP3, and shove it deep in the Recording Industries back door! If you want to bury yourself in apathy, then get the hell out of my way! If you want a steady diet of nothing left, but MP3, constipated with it to the point that you would need a lifetime of exlax to survive, knock yourself out! I am not going there, and I am certainly not following anyone else there either! Just because everyone else is jumping off of a cliff......Awwww whats the use! Is it going to take an Emancipation Proclamation from the Recording Industry so that we are no longer their b__ch? Is there anyone out there that is not a Pig feeding from the Trough of the Record Industry? If there is, stand up and be counted as a Human Being! Surely there is someone out there with some pride in themselves! Even a 65 year old Novice can hear the difference, are you supposed to be part of the Demographic that can't?
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There is an organization fighting the horrible compressed modern sound. So you CAN do something constructive about it. Many artists are becoming aware that their fans don't like the horrid sound of their work.
I think that the action plan should be to steam roll over those who are apathetic enablers of the Recording Industry. Lets see how they like it for a change! I can see that your apathetic action plan is to do nothing! I can already see how that is working out, thank you very much! Sound Quality is in the toilet, congradulations at your accomplishment, you must be proud! The view all the way from the bottom is quite impressive. Seems to me that I have got nothing to loose, and the only direction left is up. The first step, in any action plan, when in a quagmire, is to stop digging! I can see by your response, that you are not ready to set down the shovel yet! You, and just about everyone else! Well, that is the updated post! I guess the next detail of this, Highway to Hell, action plan ride of yours, is up to you! God help us, where do I get off of this Train? Under your action plan, can I still demand my Soul back from the Recording Industry, or are we all just damned? Why don't you keep me posted on that little detail? Will the Ninth level of Hell, have all of us eating and digesting CD/SACD/MP3 for all eternity? How many more crappy sounding Formats is it going to take before you realize that you are being hunted as an apathetic Prey! The first action plan should be to erase that Target off of your back! Just a suggestion, Cheers!
P.S.-"Another fine mess you have gotten us into"!
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