On 21/01/17 09:12, Brian Gaff wrote:
You know increasingly I'm noting that the young uns seem to be listening to
all their music on crap gear. IE many of the sound systems for multi room
use are 1 mono speaker or one speaker with s speakers facing different ways.
Look at the amazon Echo, or the output form I phones etc.


Their music is experienced passively, it's wallpaper changed to the
current fashion intended as disposable as a TV commercial. Other than
possibly a subwoofer, no enhanced rendering is required for about 90% of
it as the necessary compressor adjustments have been made up front.

Electronics companies hence have an easy job to manufacture equipment
that can be mass market profitable without going to technical extremes
that will never be used.

However enjoying real Hi-Fi music (For all generations, all genres) is
experiencing the involvement with decent reproduction equipment (better
dynamics for a start) and being closer in the performance or audience,
undistracted. Ideally, eyes closed...

Currently while typing this, I'm enjoying 'dark side of the moon', the
SACD 5.1 cut. It's ain't wallpaper that ye wander around cooking food
to. It rewards my better attention with properly setup speakers from the
car boot sale that someone got fed up of, and bought smaller!

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Adrian C