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Originally Posted by aom3
High-fidelity audio may be endangered in the age of MP3, but a growing number of artists are refusing to see it die without a fight: Neil Young, Trent Reznor, John Mellencamp and T Bone Burnett have all joined the battle recently, embracing sound formats that are superior to both MP3s and CDs.
Read On: Artists Fight for New Hi-Fi Formats : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily |
An interesting post which I missed when you first posted it. We should applaud efforts to improve the dynamic of sound but with the proliferation of MP3 players a key question is whether a particular MP3 player can support this improved audio or not.
I wonder, however, how much is down to the post production process and if greater attention is given at this stage whether sufficient improvements could be made without the need for a "High Resolution" format. For example I've noticed that there can be significant differences in downloading different albums in the same, alleged, bitrate. Perhaps I'm not "target market" as I don't own a high end audio system but I have noticed that if I download two different albums at my preferred 256vbr bitrate that many, of the albums, will sound bright & dynamic and a pleasure to listen to whilst some (the minority thankfully) sound dynamically compressed and dull. Maybe the bitrate wasn't as claimed, maybe some poor quality was, somehow, injected by the music store but maybe the difference is down to the audio mixing and post production process. I wonder.
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