Hello,
I purchase a fair bit of music on a monthly basis, mostly from one of the few remaining brick and mortar music stores left standing in my area. I should mention that I only purchase " Used" CD's. I specificly target CD's created prior to Y2K or thereabouts because IME they seem to be the only ones left that haven't been "Remastered" (more like molested).
On occassion I also purchase downloaded "HiRes" versions of the same Redbook stuff I already own. I haven't quite figured out why I continue to do this because in 9 out of 10 times the older Redbook version always sounds better, by a fairly big margin.
I get that an artist would be interested in making additional profits on an otherwise dried up album but in almost every case, IME, in doing so they sell out to the grubby mits involved in funding the "Remaster" who insist on crushing the original dynamics to oblivion just to please the new generation listening to the music via Beats headphones and .MP3 files.
Yes, I'm one of those "Audacity cowboy's" and Foobar Dynamic Range meter fans because,once again, IME the measurements don't lie. I've yet to hear a recording that measures worse than the orignal and actually sound better.
WTF is wrong with these people! Once all the good versions of these albums dry up all hope will be lost. My hope is that there will be no shortage of old stuff anytime before I cease to exist which was sold off by the younger generation that already owns a downloaded copy from I-Tunes.
What are your thoughts on this?
I purchase a fair bit of music on a monthly basis, mostly from one of the few remaining brick and mortar music stores left standing in my area. I should mention that I only purchase " Used" CD's. I specificly target CD's created prior to Y2K or thereabouts because IME they seem to be the only ones left that haven't been "Remastered" (more like molested).
On occassion I also purchase downloaded "HiRes" versions of the same Redbook stuff I already own. I haven't quite figured out why I continue to do this because in 9 out of 10 times the older Redbook version always sounds better, by a fairly big margin.
I get that an artist would be interested in making additional profits on an otherwise dried up album but in almost every case, IME, in doing so they sell out to the grubby mits involved in funding the "Remaster" who insist on crushing the original dynamics to oblivion just to please the new generation listening to the music via Beats headphones and .MP3 files.
Yes, I'm one of those "Audacity cowboy's" and Foobar Dynamic Range meter fans because,once again, IME the measurements don't lie. I've yet to hear a recording that measures worse than the orignal and actually sound better.
WTF is wrong with these people! Once all the good versions of these albums dry up all hope will be lost. My hope is that there will be no shortage of old stuff anytime before I cease to exist which was sold off by the younger generation that already owns a downloaded copy from I-Tunes.
What are your thoughts on this?