“Many people within the music industry are claiming that we’re losing our ability to appreciate sound properly. All kinds of factors are responsible, they say: cheap listening devices; listening on the move; and compressed audio file formats… that allow huge amounts of music to fit on to portable devices.” But the emotional response we feel to music seems to be the same regardless. Is it possible that sound quality isn’t that important?
Tag: 07.30.08
Is There Any Lower To Sink?
“We are living in a golden age of the pseudo-meaningful stunt…The market for everything is becoming awfully crowded. And so the desperation of the hucksters is everywhere in evidence.”