Of course. Except that when everyone makes recordings
the wrong way, then people are likely to prefer
the recordings played back a complementary wrong
way. Why would anyone want to hear most
commercial recordings as they actually are?
Does anyone really like the sound of the human voice
from four inches away for example? Audio people
act as if the master were the word of God.
But the master is in fact usually lousy
Robert
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote:
On 23 Jan 2011, at 23:52, Robert Greene wrote:
Of course this completely ignored the fact
that in blind testing years ago,
everyone preferred cassettes of vinyl
to vinyl itself(which ought to have
told people something about the recording
industry's recording practices).
Sounds like they were using DDM vinyl ;)
Besides, some people like euphonic distortion like tape saturation.
But such things should always an effect used during production, not a side-effect
introduced by the delivery medium. So even if cassette sounds "better" it's
still worse, because it should sound like what was mastered, and if the cassette sound is
the target sound, then that's how the master tape should sound. It shouldn't be
introduced in playback.
Therefore <insert favorite four letter word> all "better sound" that's
introduced by the medium or equipment. Anything that doesn't exactly sound like the original
master is sounding worse, by the very definition that it diverges from the master. If you don't
like how the master sounds, yell at the mastering engineer, don't screw with euphonic playback
equipment.
Ronald
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