Are we losing it,....The ability to tell the difference between a "live" instrument and a reproduced version of the same instrument. In our ears we trust. No amount of visual or data analysis will tell us whether a sound is right without us hearing it.
In years gone by the only music people heard was live instruments and today it has deteriorated in such a bad way that not only do we hear bad replications of music, but the mediums we hear them on, software and hardware are becoming worse and worse.
For example : I recently heard on my hard drive a collection of beautiful music destroyed by compression - "Herion 4". Was the original music recorded this way or did the person whom copied this music "tweak" it to his satisfaction. This is so far removed from the original that it is very very disturbing.
Another example : My daughter continues to listen to her music, against her and our better judgement, via her iphone on the supplied crappy in-ear headphones and she listens 24/7 to them. No matter how many times I have spoken, co-axed, suggested, sworn, given her decent phones, speakers, systems, she persists with this habit. She, and many many other young kids are so so far removed from reality, i.e. they do not have any any idea that there is content below 100Hz, for example, or what real instruments sound like, and this problem is getting worse.
There is a saying out of one or other movie : " Reality is nothing but a collective hunch"
Is this where we are heading?
In years gone by the only music people heard was live instruments and today it has deteriorated in such a bad way that not only do we hear bad replications of music, but the mediums we hear them on, software and hardware are becoming worse and worse.
For example : I recently heard on my hard drive a collection of beautiful music destroyed by compression - "Herion 4". Was the original music recorded this way or did the person whom copied this music "tweak" it to his satisfaction. This is so far removed from the original that it is very very disturbing.
Another example : My daughter continues to listen to her music, against her and our better judgement, via her iphone on the supplied crappy in-ear headphones and she listens 24/7 to them. No matter how many times I have spoken, co-axed, suggested, sworn, given her decent phones, speakers, systems, she persists with this habit. She, and many many other young kids are so so far removed from reality, i.e. they do not have any any idea that there is content below 100Hz, for example, or what real instruments sound like, and this problem is getting worse.
There is a saying out of one or other movie : " Reality is nothing but a collective hunch"
Is this where we are heading?
