Reminders of Things Lost
Posted on | November 16, 2009 | No Comments
Here’s some good viewing to understand what’s being lost in some of today’s digital recordings.
- This YouTube video was sent to me by a musician-friend. It’s contains a useful visual explanation of what the loudness wars have done to dynamics.
- This NPR story was sent to me by another friend (non-musician), and explains that striving for perfection can cost us creativity, and then takes its own stab at explaining the loudness wars.
- Finally, this interview with David Wilson (designer of Wilson Audio, some of the best speakers in the world) explains the importance of dynamic contrast in reproducing music through loudspeakers…and what’s required to make a reproduction sound credible.
Dynamics and contrast explained from three different perspectives. See a pattern here?
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