I think that music quality has only gone down with the years?

Question

Who else thinks this? I mean i think records sound way better than CD's( yes, i still have a turntable) and CD's sound way better than MP3's.

Answer 1

Fret not; for while popular music is definitely killing humanity's musical sensibility, there exists, in a place beyond space and time (or your local record store's jazz section) a plethora of wonderous things to behold!!
Yes, ClearChannel and the major labels have been systematically reducing people's aesthetic tastes to the likes of flies on dung, but good things are brewing around the corner!

For a few examples of great NEW music, I turn you to the following:
"The Hidden Land" by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
"Consequence of Chaos" by Al Di Meola
"Everything is Illuminated (Soundtrack)" by Paul Cantelon and Various Artists
"The Campfire Headphase" by Boards of Canada
"Thieves and Poets" by John McLaughlin
"A Livingroom Hush" by Jaga Jazzist
"New Features" by HiM (not to be confused with H.I.M., the make-up wearing hack artists)
"Deloused in the Comatorium" by The Mars Volta (great for fans of Santana and Led Zeppelin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra)

There's still good music out there, just not many people listening to it. :) Hope this list helps you out a little.

EDIT: OHHHHHH.. You were talking about the RECORDING quality!? I'm so embarassed!!!
But, to answer that, it has obviously gotten better. But only if used properly. New technology is capable of capturing a much broader range of frequencies (making the sound less flat) and eliminating alot more of the white noise (hissing and such) found on older recordings. Unfortunately, most recording nowadays overdo it and instead of sounding flat, the recording just sounds... dead.

Answer 2

CD's DO sound better than MP3's, because there is more information in a CD track than there is in an MP3 track; vinyl records INITIALLY sound better than CD's for the same reason, but the sound quality of a vinyl record inevitably degrades because the very act of playing a record damages the record itself. A large part of the difference between the sounds of the different playback formats lies in the way our brains process the sound information they receive (we evolved in an analog world, so digital information sounds unnatural to us); this results in our brains recognizing that, between the digital bits of a CD (and even more so in an MP3 file), SOMETHING IS MISSING - we're not sure what, but we can tell - and even a damaged vinyl record still fills in the spaces that a digital recording does not.

Answer 3

The sound quality has improved greatly over the years. I listen to plenty of records, and you can easily tell CDs and Mp3's sound better than records.

Answer 4

Very well timed question! what number of youngsters are uncovered to solid music? what number of young ones are uncovered to Luciano Pavarotti and what sort are uncovered to Justin Beiber? If infants (human beings often) are actually not taught/experienced to apply their auditory senses, they gained't be able to tell the version between solid and undesirable music. Even club beats could be 'music' to them. Now in case you inspect the different section - the people who're making the music - that's extra straightforward for them to make 'in spite of' high quality stuff, even nevertheless that's harder to make solid high quality stuff. The musicians are 0.5-cooked (or uncooked), attempting to make music with little know-how/skill. yet maximum individuals of the purpose audience is incapable to determine solid from undesirable, so as that they are listening to the undesirable high quality stuff being produced. answer: permit's all learn and lifestyle solid stuff ourselves and prepare solid stuff to our next technology, at scale. immediately maximum individuals of the purpose audience will initiate rejecting the undesirable high quality stuff. If maximum individuals rejects, it heavily isn't there anymore.

Answer 5

Agreed. Nothing quite like the sound of a vinyl!