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Topic	What are your top five albums of 2018 so far?
CaptainStrong 06/11/18 9:51:20 AM #31:	adjl posted... CaptainStrong posted... Of course I f*ing know. I just don't like downloading or streaming music. I like buying CDs and ripping them myself. I mean, you seem to be somewhat of an audiophile, and CD's are objectively lower-quality than many downloaded tracks. I would have thought you'd have made the switch as soon as it became possible to buy high-quality single tracks instead of entire albums of compressed stuff. CaptainStrong posted... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ" data-time=" And I do care about all of that other s* and I've been able to deal with the horrible sound and enjoy several modern albums. But with every f*ing album in the last 20+ years having the top waveform in this image, I don't want to go out of my way to find modern music. Old music isn't overly compressed s* like this. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/RHCP_Snow_Hey_Oh_waveform.png As somebody who mostly listens to classical music, I actually find having less dynamic range makes modern stuff easier to listen to. Classical music doesn't record well simply because of the dynamic contrast, which means I have to turn up the volume to be able to hear the quiet parts and turn down the volume to not suffer hearing damage in the loud parts. Not having to do that is certainly convenient. I don't think I'm really that much of an audiophile. I have decent headphones, but I mostly listen to 320 Kbps MP3 CD rips and I can't tell the difference between that and FLAC. I buy CDs because I like owning music. It's nice having a physical booklet to flip through and being able to sell it if I want. I can't sell high-res audio files and they're way more expensive than CDs. I haven't listened to classical music, so I don't know how high dynamic range affects it. With the rock music I listen to, it's usually just drum hits that are louder than the rest of the music, so I don't have to adjust the volume to not risk hurting my ears. Thank you for your serious, civil response to my arguments. <cite>CaptainStrong posted [p:902964915] in What are y... [t:76690217]...</cite> <quote><cite>adjl posted...</cite> <quote><cite>CaptainStrong posted...</cite> <quote>Of course I f*ing know. I just don't like downloading or streaming music. I like buying CDs and ripping them myself.</quote> I mean, you seem to be somewhat of an audiophile, and CD's are objectively lower-quality than many downloaded tracks. I would have thought you'd have made the switch as soon as it became possible to buy high-quality single tracks instead of entire albums of compressed stuff. <cite>CaptainStrong posted...</cite> <quote> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ" data-time=" And I do care about all of that other s* and I've been able to deal with the horrible sound and enjoy several modern albums. But with every f*ing album in the last 20+ years having the top waveform in this image, I don't want to go out of my way to find modern music. Old music isn't overly compressed s* like this. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/RHCP_Snow_Hey_Oh_waveform.png</quote> As somebody who mostly listens to classical music, I actually find having less dynamic range makes modern stuff easier to listen to. Classical music doesn't record well simply because of the dynamic contrast, which means I have to turn up the volume to be able to hear the quiet parts and turn down the volume to not suffer hearing damage in the loud parts. Not having to do that is certainly convenient.</quote> I don't think I'm really that much of an audiophile. I have decent headphones, but I mostly listen to 320 Kbps MP3 CD rips and I can't tell the difference between that and FLAC. I buy CDs because I like owning music. It's nice having a physical booklet to flip through and being able to sell it if I want. I can't sell high-res audio files and they're way more expensive than CDs. I haven't listened to classical music, so I don't know how high dynamic range affects it. With the rock music I listen to, it's usually just drum hits that are louder than the rest of the music, so I don't have to adjust the volume to not risk hurting my ears. Thank you for your serious, civil response to my arguments.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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