On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:00:02PM -0400, S. Massy wrote: > That's not necessarily surprising and has less to do with actual quality > of reproduction than with comfort. Many of us who grew up with > LPs and tapes had difficulty adapting to digitally reprroduced music (I > confess I still get a warm fuzzy feeling with listening to a very > slightly worn vinyl record). So, can we really be surprised that people > who probably have been listening to MP3 encoded music since the age of > ten or younger feel a degree of discomfort or alienness when listening > to uncompressed audio? There's another dimension to it: most of today's popular music exists *only* in its recorded form, there's no 'real' version to compare with. This goes as far as a live performance being expected to sound like the mp3. And even in classical music, some people are now expecting the reverb in a concert hall to come mainly from the front. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
