In Reply to: A representation of my favourite music (Kraftwerk poster) (big pic) posted by Eric LeRouge on June 4, 2004 at 04:01:18:
I like perhaps 80% of the music in that chart (I probably own stuff by as many), but I think hi-rez is just overkill for that.why?
Most of that stuff is overprocessed, bad quality electronics and some done on really lo-fi equipment. The later stuff especially has almost no dynamic range and is clipped/distorted/compressed very badly.
Why do we need hi-resolution audiot for that?
Properly compressed multi-channel DD should be more than enough and play back on all gear while still providing any possible artistic benefits of multichannel.
The stuff that really begs for hi-res is the music that has huge dynamic range, lots of ambience cues and natural textures/tonality which we are very good at evaluating as human sound processor. IMHO, of course.
Don't get me wrong though. I'd buy a lot of stuff from that chart on DVD-A/DVD-V/SACD if the price was right :)
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- DVD-V good enough for that - Halcy 11:59:20 06/14/04 (0)