I just destroyed a brand new CD. Chris Isaak's latest to be exact. I bought it a couple of days ago, listened to it almost once, then threw it on the floor and stomped it into little pieces.
You may think I'm crazy, and I could be, but what I definitely am, is sick and tired of paying good money for music that sounds like absolute crap. The CD medium is capable of glorious sound quality and I have many CD's that do sound wonderful, but it seems that almost all "popular" titles that I buy these days, and by that I mean pop, country and rock, sound terrible. Maybe like good AM radio. There is no dynamic range at all. Screams are the same volume as whispers. Drums sound like they're about two doors down the hall from the room everything else is in.
"Flat, two-dimensional and thin" pretty much sums it up, and I'm sick of it!!
You would think that if you were in the business of selling sound, you might be safe in assuming "good" sound would be desirable by you customers. Apparently many record companies don't think so. How long do restaurants that sell lousy food last? So how long will the music industry last if they persist in squashing the life out of music? They all deserve to go belly up. Studios invest thousands of dollars in recording equipment, then intentionally desecrate the artist's work, just so their record will stand out on the radio. The love of money truly is the root of all evil...and of a lot of bad sounding music recordings as well!
All I can do is stop buying ANY new CD's unless I have reasonable confidence that they will at least sound acceptable.
And as for my smashed CD, it's going back to the store from whence it came - in a padded envelope. Or else it's going directly back to the record company. I don't know how else to send a message, however small, that at least one music lover is as mad as an old wet hen and isn't going to take it anymore!!!
I just destroyed a brand new CD. Chris Isaak's latest to be exact. I bought it a couple of days ago, listened to it almost once, then threw it on the floor and stomped it into little pieces.
You may think I'm crazy, and I could be, but what I definitely am, is sick and tired of paying good money for music that sounds like absolute crap. The CD medium is capable of glorious sound quality and I have many CD's that do sound wonderful, but it seems that almost all "popular" titles that I buy these days, and by that I mean pop, country and rock, sound terrible. Maybe like good AM radio. There is no dynamic range at all. Screams are the same volume as whispers. Drums sound like they're about two doors down the hall from the room everything else is in.
"Flat, two-dimensional and thin" pretty much sums it up, and I'm sick of it!!
You would think that if you were in the business of selling sound, you might be safe in assuming "good" sound would be desirable by you customers. Apparently many record companies don't think so. How long do restaurants that sell lousy food last? So how long will the music industry last if they persist in squashing the life out of music? They all deserve to go belly up. Studios invest thousands of dollars in recording equipment, then intentionally desecrate the artist's work, just so their record will stand out on the radio. The love of money truly is the root of all evil...and of a lot of bad sounding music recordings as well!
All I can do is stop buying ANY new CD's unless I have reasonable confidence that they will at least sound acceptable.
And as for my smashed CD, it's going back to the store from whence it came - in a padded envelope. Or else it's going directly back to the record company. I don't know how else to send a message, however small, that at least one music lover is as mad as an old wet hen and isn't going to take it anymore!!!