Lou figures out that the mp3 standard is not wonderful. My reply at ZDnet, if I had felt like registering one more %^&*( time just so I could leave a comment:
every recording is a degradation of the live, in-person performance. the question is, what trade-offs are you comfortable with? if you don’t have an audiophile playback system, what good are high-end recordings?most people listen to music in environments that are full of compromises: the solution, according to the snobs (call it what it is), is to stop listening. better to listen to music you like and follow the trend of better equipment/better encoding that not listen at all, don’t you think?
[From Rocker Lou Reed takes aim at new technology | Tech News on ZDNet]
Questions:
- how is mp3 “new” technology?
- how perceptible is the difference between a WAV file and a 320k mp3 or mp4/aac file?
- does he have any idea what he’s on about or is he just one more “traditionalist” in a changing world?