The Death of High Fidelity

[The Dong]

> - The article has nothing to do with the death of hifi, it's a rant about
> modern production techniques.

Modern production techniques have lowered the requirements of hifi so 
far, now everyone can afford it ;)

> - I whole heartedly agree about mastering, but people want to sell their
> 'product' and if it means compressing it to death to do so, thats what
> they'll do.

I think part of the problem lies in letting artists and producers have 
too much say in the final product (not the people actually recording and 
mastering) They all just want it to appear louder because that sounds 
better to them at the time..

This is all a plot to get people to buy more and more music.
After all, you can't listen to a badly mastered 'shouting' album more 
than about once all the way through (e.g. X&Y) before you have to put 
something else less falsely intense on ;)