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Author Topic: Digital audio is causing inner-city violence.  (Read 7276 times)

Ian Visible

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Re: Digital audio is causing inner-city violence.
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2010, 12:54:24 PM »

+1

I'm left with a great sense of nostalgia for my own (barely remembered) past.

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Re: Digital audio is causing inner-city violence.
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2010, 01:07:53 PM »

I blame Blackeye Peas for all violence at the moment. That last pile of turgid shit that they came out with is right up there with "wassa matter you?" and the fucking birdie song. The instant I hear "I got a feelin" I want to kick someones head in.
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Re: Digital audio is causing inner-city violence.
« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2010, 03:17:06 PM »

Hank Alrich wrote on Fri, 15 January 2010 08:20


There aren't "rough edges" in a properly reconstructed signal


Key word in that sentence is "properly"... which my iPod doesn't, and the D/A converters in my car stereo don't.  While I used to have converters in my old studio environment that did, I have no access to that hardware in my current musical listening environments.

PS:  I don't have a home stereo... in my house we listen to music via a Victrola... zero electrons involved in the process.
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Re: Digital audio is causing inner-city violence.
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2010, 05:02:44 PM »

I hear a swirling sometimes on cymbals on my ipod.

It sure sounds like "do it...do it..."

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Re: Digital audio is causing inner-city violence.
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2010, 06:47:41 PM »

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 I am wondering whether we can't blame the CD for some of our social problems.

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So you get some young person that is already feeling frustrated in society, an angry young man perhaps, and he is listening to CDs and digital sound sources 99 percent of the time, and you know, I just wonder whether there is a connection there.


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Re: Digital audio is causing inner-city violence.
« Reply #20 on: January 20, 2010, 03:35:29 AM »

I am listening right now to Paul Horn's "Inside" LP recorded in the Taj Mahal.  Pretty fucking amazing record.  That reverb can't all be from inside the building, is it?  Anyways, the decay seems endless.  When I listen to a CD or MP3, I feel my heart clenched, like something is there and then not there.  I feel abandoned by the square waves.  I think most people can feel this disconnect but are not able to do an A/B test with something that is not this way.  Most people do not go out to see live music that has dynamic range and isn't digitally processed and is in a venue with decent acoustics.  I've been to a lot of shows in living rooms with just the vocals fed into a 60's Shure tube pa.  Magic.  It's one thing to experience the entrance of a sound, it's another to experience its exit.  I think this is what creates the experience of the presence of anything.  Being there/not being there.  You can tell when something is actually "happening".  It's a magical experience.  I'm too chickenshit to go all tape in my studio but I feel 24/96 with good converters gets me most of the way there.  Vinyl cut off of 24/96 masters is a better option for reproducing this than CD.  I am a devout Baudrillardian Post-Modernist, and this fuels my hunger for the "thereness" in my encounters.  Growing up in LA makes it that much more necessary to tell someone: "No, I really mean what I say."

Nicholas


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