25-Feb-2016, 18:05
(25-Feb-2016, 17:07)f1eng Wrote: It depends on whether you are judging whether something is an accurate reproduction of the original or just whether it sounds nice to you (which is probably the only thing that really matters)
If you were not the original recording engineer you can not know whether the reproduction is accurate, since even if you are present at the performance as it is being recorded your ears are not where the microphones were positioned, and that makes a BIG difference.
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100 % acknowledge with everything you wrote.
What else went very wrong is the mastering. The loudness war ruins a lot of music esp. pop and rock music. I would vote for a floating point type of encoding. Here the compression rate could for instance be defined in the playback device (with high compression in car stereo, portable player or smartphone) and the max. resolution would be available for audiophile playback.
Cheers,
Krisp
