it's good, but i'm opposed to music that is deliberately made to sound like AM radio ...

it's like how "Black Swan" was deliberately shot on 16mm film ( instead of 35mm ) to exaggerate the film look ...

i actually was reading a recording forum once where senior engineers were making fun of "stupid" interns who were trying to use high bitrate digital recording instead of analog tape when the artist specifically asked for tape ...

essentially these "experts" are using their knowledge of technology to deliberately ruin sound and image and as an Audiophile i am not OK with this ...

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i also laugh at retarded Audiophools who buy $10,000 cables trying to get better fidelity while the recording engineers are going out of their way to ruin the sound by using 50 year old analog technology even when their studio already has 192 khz 32 bit floating point ...

yes an Audiophile community is coming ...

like distortion can be used as a creative effect, sure ...

but when it is uniformly applied to the entire album that is just a spit in the face of a person who just spent his entire pay check to upgrade his sound system ...

i like when there is a contrast between sounds that are heavily distorted and sounds that were recorded super clean - same as how you might have contrast between male and female vocals for example ...

but when everything is compressed into the same mud it's like ... why ?

i understand it's purely personal preference but same exact deal with movies.

you spend an entire paycheck on a 8K Sony TV only for the hollywood degen to decide they will deliberately use the lowest quality image capture technology available ...

on the flip side of this Netflix mandates that only approved cameras can be used for their content and their standards are pretty high - the MINIMUM quality for Netflix is about 10 times higher than what "Black Swan" was shot in ... i disagree with Netflix approach as well.

i don't want every movie to have exactly the same look which is what Netflix wants. but i also don't want movies getting so "creative" with the look that you can't see anything at all ( 28 days later ).

likewise each artist should have their own sound, which, never the less, shouldn't sound like AM radio IMO.

i mean having the entire album sound like AM radio would be fine if it was just that one album.

even having the entire discography of one artist sound like AM radio would be fine if it was just that one artist.

but when ALL artists and ALL of their work have exactly the same AM radio sound you have to ask yourself - WTF is going on ? LOL

like Hello it's been over 40 years since Compact Disc was invented ???

Radio killed the analog star.

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Not a urine problem anymore is it?

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if i was a dictator i would ban all analog audio and make using it punishable by death.