![]() Dynamic range is overrated today at 110db or so but it cant hold a candle to the 54db or so of vinyl. Now take an mp3 ( with somewhere around twice the dynamic range of a turn table!) the same song thru a transistor amp to the same pair of speakers and it just SUCKS in comparison. The nuances and presence and THE SOUND is amazing. Play it on a decent turn table into a good old tube amp to a really nice a pair of speakers. Want a good example? Get a top notch older (80s or so) vinyl record album say Al Dimeola – Elegant Gypsy. Thats one reason motion picture audio sounds so good specifically in comparison. At motion picture houses the monitors are calibrated at -85 db. ![]() Studio monitors are NOT calibrated in audio studios. Its just generating square waves! The music starts and all the VU meters in the studio go red and stay there. I continue listening to music the way I want to, and sometimes that’s a crappy car stereo, a scratchy record from the thrift store, a small transistor radio, cheap ear buds, or a mono Bluetooth speaker, the way almost everybody but sound snobs listen to most of their music.ĭynamic range over compression, Lossy data compression, psychoacoustic 90% or so sound removal (mp3 and others), THE LOUDNESS WAR. I also have a record player, and while I love the sound, it is simply not better, but like with YouTube, it doesn’t matter as long as I have another way to listen to music.Īnd if you’re an artist who wants people to listen to your music “the way you intend to”… go fly a kite. I have my pc hooked up to my stereo, and while I acknowledge that lossless is better, it is very possible to enjoy music from YouTube and you’re “doing yourself a disservice” not to listen to music any which way you can. Not everyone has the means, or even wants to listen to music in a quiet room with $30,000 worth of equipment. There are thousands of fantastic musicians sharing their talent on YouTube, waiting to be discovered, and if this jackwagon has his way, they can keep waiting. Do yourself a favour and rediscover real music just like real food, it will cost more, and take more time, but ultimately, it’s more satisfying in the long run. It’s quick, cheap, and delivers some result, but ultimately, you’re left unsatisfied. Listening to music on YouTube is like consuming fast food. Music is like food for the brain – shouldn’t you feed it the best it can get? Advertisementsįinally, if I were to encapsulate how I feel about YouTube – or even Spotify – as a listening platform, it would be something like this: Just look at this MRI scan of your brain listening to music from for a glimpse of how powerful music can be. Music is powerful stuff it has the ability to excite, inspire, and even reduce stress. It might just be the start of a rekindled friendship. Try to listen on a proper hi-fi if you can, but the most important thing is to take time out of your day and give 30 – 45 minutes to music, and music alone. It can be vinyl or digital (it doesn’t matter), but make sure you sit yourself down in a quiet room where you won’t be disturbed, and you can listen on the best system you have. Next time you feel the urge to open YouTube and dwindle away hours casually drifting from one track to another – dig out an old favourite from your record collection instead. Thankfully, there is a way back you just need to get back to basics and shut down YouTube! When was the last time you really felt moved by a piece of music on MP3, YouTube, or even Spotify to the point it gave you chills? Anyone who has seriously connected with music will be able to relate to this feeling, and I have a hunch it’s been a while since you felt it. ![]() Sophie’s experience is a trap, that, if we’re honest, we’ve all fallen into at one point or another since the rise of MP3 at the turn of the century. Combine this with the increasingly passive and fickle listening experience that streamed music encourages, and you can begin to see why people start to forget why they loved music in the first place. Claiming, and I quote ‘Streaming music has made it so dull I’ve lost all interest in it’. Powerful words, but I suspect that what she’s experiencing is not so much a consequence of losing the physical medium, but more of a side effect from going all compressed. As an example, Sophie Heawood of the Guardian writes a fantastic piece about her experience of selling off all her music and going digital. Badly compressed music can sound tinny, lifeless, or even distorted, and this has a knock on impact when it comes to our emotions. The truth is, compressed music – particularly badly compressed examples – is that it just doesn’t have the same effect on us emotionally. Long story short, the quality varies enormously. Imagine then, the varying degrees of user understanding when it comes to video production and audio formats.
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