* It may have been the liquor talking, but
Scott wrote:
On Jan 26, 6:20=A0am, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
I would like to presume that music company executives aren't total idiots
and use customer surveys, focus groups and blind preference testing to gu=
ide
their audio production efforts. If that is the case, then rioting against
current music production norms is futile, as they are simply being good
business men and giving the custormers what they want.
I wouldn't presume that at all.
It really boils down to this "That's still a motivation for some
producers. If their record jumps out of your iPod compared with the
song that preceded it, then they've accomplished their goal."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...Id=3D122114058
From a business POV that is not totally idiotic but from a QC
standpoint it is.
OTOH even from a business POV some would argue that it is shortsighted
and somewhat less than smart.
"Bob Ludwig thinks that's an unfortunate development.
'People talk about downloads hurting record sales," Ludwig says. "I
and some other people would submit that another thing that is hurting
record sales these days is the fact that they are so compressed that
the ear just gets tired of it. When you're through listening to a
whole album of this highly compressed music, your ear is fatigued. You
may have enjoyed the music but you don't really feel like going back
and listening to it again.'"
I think you would be hard pressed to find many folks who think music
company execs are anything but idiots these days. Clearly they are not
motivated by a passion for the art. There was a time when they were.
Sad.
Leonard Chess and Ahmet Ertegun they are not.
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