Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Death of High Fidelity

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

Well put Fellippe.  What you have effectively said is that 'beauty is in the 
eyes of the beholder."  Well said!

rick


--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Death of High Fidelity
> To: "rolindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
> Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 5:53 PM
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Michael James
> <cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
> > High fidelity is 'around', although I would
> claim that the pool of ears
> > capable of appreciating the sounds generated by
> equipment that costs about
> > as much as a new Mercedes is much, much smaller than
> ever.  Convenience
> > rules, and lest we forget that the music that matters
> most to today's
> > listeners was NOT generated or recorded on equipment
> that is as
> > sophisticated as the modern Audiophile's setup -
> so what, exactly, is the
> > need for ultra-fidelity audio reconstruction of a
> sound file that started
> > life as a digitally preserved, low-fi recording? 
> You're throwing big-money
> > away trying to create a soundstage or recover audio
> data that was never
> > there to begin with.
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, I love the aesthetics of
> tube-powered amplifiers,
> > especially the ones for ipod and digital sources, but
> most folks of my
> > generation grew up on cassettes/CDs and cannot
> 'hear' the difference in
> > sound reproduction that would justify the $$$$$$$$
> investment for such
> > equipment.  I'd like to, but my ears must be shot
> from the loud concerts and
> > the constant headphone play cranked to 11.
> >
> > M
> 
> 
> Mike James & Rick,
> 
> I get where you're coming from that newer music is not
> hi-fi (typically) in
> the recording stage...however, some of it is. Timberlake,
> Aguilera, Robin
> Thicke use real instrumentation in a good # of their songs.
> 
> Bottom line is that I listen to everything pretty much, and
> I have high end
> home & car systems. When I put in some of the newer CDs
> in from Top 40
> artists, I can never listen to them as loud as I could some
> of the older
> "audiophile" stuff, especially in the car.  I
> tuned my car to really capture
> the dynamics of great recordings and as such have
> sacrificed the ability to
> enjoy the newer stuff to an extent. I've considered
> compromising that
> recently, but it sucks to have to do that.
> 
> As a reference, if I listen to the good stuff in the car, a
> nice sweet spot
> volume wise would be about 23-26 (out of 35). Most rap,
> newer pop will drop
> this sweet spot to about 16-18 and not be as dynamic. All I
> ideally want is
> for it to be about the same....use less compression please.
> 
> One piece of music makes the system come alive and
> justifies the great
> expense. The other makes it feel like it's going to rip
> everything into
> pieces.
> 
> BTW, synthesized bass *can* sound very nice if done right.
> 
> FG
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