"Serge Auckland" in
:

The message may actually be getting through to the public:- The Daily Mail a
few days ago ran an article about this very topic, how excessive processing
was destroying music in favour of a loud, processed pap. They also made the
point that it's creeping into classical music, not just chart stuff. The
article was written in the Mail's usual "isn't it awful" style, but at least
one mass-circulation paper though it worth-while to bring this to the
public's attention.

S

I was interested enough to glance at the dailymail.co.uk site but couldn't
find it. Just by coincidence, I came across this yesterday; perhaps a backlash
against heavily processed sound has (perversely;-?) driven a vinyl resurgence?

http://www.musicangle.com/shownews.php?id=104

"David Hayes of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the
University of Toronto says the growing popularity of vinyl might be a form of
resistance against the music industry's corporate taste-makers."

"In yet another turnaround, teens overwhelmingly insisted the sound quality of
LPs was superior to that of modern formats. They characterized LPs and the LP
artists of the past as more authentic than the barrage of youth-oriented music
being aggressively marketed to them today."
--
Ross Matheson