11-Jan-2015, 14:05
The loudness wars site reminds me of how frustrating it is to use a hifi nowadays.
It seems almost completely pointless to own a quality hifi system when so very much of the music being made available to listen to over the last few years is on such very poor quality recordings.
What is worse (IMHO) the LP release seems to always have a higher dynamic range than the CD which is monumentally irritating when CD has a considerably higher dynamic range capability than LP. And the LP is ludicrously priced and fragile.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!
It seems almost completely pointless to own a quality hifi system when so very much of the music being made available to listen to over the last few years is on such very poor quality recordings.
What is worse (IMHO) the LP release seems to always have a higher dynamic range than the CD which is monumentally irritating when CD has a considerably higher dynamic range capability than LP. And the LP is ludicrously priced and fragile.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!
Devialet Original d'Atelier 44 Core, Job Pre/225, Goldmund PH2, Goldmund Reference/T3f /Ortofon A90, Goldmund Mimesis 36+ & Chord Blu, iMac/Air, Lynx Theta, Tune Audio Anima, Goldmund Epilog 1&2, REL Studio. Dialog, Silver Phantoms, Branch stands, copper cables (mainly).
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