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Heefty
1387
Jul 12, 2016
I'll just ditto all of the other posts in this thread but add the following:
Sound stage/imaging is not really a thing in most modern music. Given how digitally produced everything is that us young'ns (I'm not sure that I could be considered young, but I digress) listen to compression is part of the music and there is no real sense of space in any of it to appreciate with free standing speakers. That's beyond the complete lack of imaging inherent in its nature. As such 1 of the 2 major benefits of the traditional system is gone.
Most young people these days are living in apartments and condos rather than owning a house. Setting your music loud enough to feel the visceral impact of the sound waves on your body results in your neighbors pounding on the wall/ceiling/floor and calling the cops on you. That's not to mention what would happen if you tried to get away with it in your office which is where we're spending the vast majority of our waking hours these days. That's the second of the 2 major benefits out the window.
Audiopro
167
Jul 13, 2016
HeeftyYou don't listen to much real music do you. Sound stage and imaging is everything in good modern music. Turn it down and listen., you might discover something other than volume?
Heefty
1387
Jul 13, 2016
AudioproNot sure what you call real music, but I assure you that I listen to plenty of it.
None of it compares in the slightest to what you get from 30+years ago when albums were recorded using strategically placed microphones and musicians rather than built by connecting tiny signal snippets using software.
Audiopro
167
Jul 13, 2016
HeeftyI'm a recording engineer for the last 40 years and I could send you recordings you'd never be able to tell whether done in a computer or not. Believe me most 30+ year old recordings, save for classical and some jazz, were done in studios where mic placement was not particularly strategic other than to isolate instruments from each other. The sense of ambience, depth, sound stage and imaging were created artificially through mixing desks using acoustic echo chambers and 4' X 8' tensioned steel plates, and later by digital means. I grew up in the industry with tape and now with digital. I use a combination of analog and digital techniques, taking advantages of the best of both, and there are many. I record both in acoustic spaces and in studio.
By "snippets" I assume you are referring to pop recordings done a track at a time by rather bad musicians (not proper engineers) who don't know what they're doing, or how to use the easily acquired tools of today. Anybody, these days, can buy a computer an interface, a couple of cheap Chinese mics and record in a spare bedroom and call it a studio. Recordings done this way are mostly garbage and as such I agree with you completely.., sonically un-involving.
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