"people want to be in the crowd" exactly why its even MORE baffling, it sucks, AND people do it just to be relevant or matter or go along with some stupid trend
Yes then just say so.
I don't know if that is the case for older music... say pre 1980's. It is certainly the case for newer music though. My dad has a few old albums he bought back in the early 70's and I've got a few remastered copies of those same albums but on new vinyl records, and we've compared them back to back on the same equipment. I think the new sounds way better, but he thinks the old ones sound way better. I think it is just perhaps what you fell in love with in the beginning, and if I can liken music to people... when you first met a really good friend or spouse, you don't want them to change from what you fell in love with in the beginning. You remember all the good feelings of when you first got together and are not just nostalgic of them, but prefer them. So remastered music is kind of like a person's personality; having been changed, is more mature, has grown wiser; and you may not be in love with that more mature, "better" person as much as who they used to be. I think that is what is going on here with my dad thinking the old records sound better than my new remastered, and perhaps the lot of us who really do think the old stuff just sounds better.
I have no idea. I've never claimed to be an audiophile myself, hell, I just use on-board sound myself and I don't have a turntable (or a CD player for that matter). Because of my age, I do have an extensive CD library but everything I own has been ripped to .mp3 and that's what I use.
If they really like the sound as claimed, then it's because of pleasant distortion that brings out the "sweetness" of vocals, especially female ones. And makes the mids sound silky smooth.
(IMHO), "materialism", is an evolutionary outgrowth of, "territorialism" in the animal kingdom. An alpha male lion declares his superiority by the amount of hunting area he controls. Humans do the same thing with material goods, subconsciously equating them with "territory".
That sounds about right, yeah.
Got it; 24-bit & 16-bit are equal to the human ear. But if it takes the "rating" of 24-bit to get better mastering, then I'm for it all the way.
cry more lol
No one is crying. What you must do is be accurate so I am rebuking
WOW! 195,000 cassettes, the belts desintergrated in my player years ago. I remember only finding one type of metal tape that sounded good for recording, then they quit making them, I guess they got shut down because you could make tape that sounded better than the prerecorded ones, sad!
The cassette industry couldn't spend an extra 3c to 5c per tape to swtich to Chrome, which when recorded correctly, might have given the format another 10yrs.
Wow, that Nakamichi should fetch some good money. Which model have you got? I haven't heard that name in a long time. Nakamichi and Tandberg were the best of the best.
Indeed, it was a Revox / Studer that I was initally looking to buy. But 2nd hand condition for the few models on offer, and the lack of parts, was my primary concern with those.
