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Is music quality moving away from the "audiophile"

I recently read an interesting post on the production of the new Metallica album and how its sound has been catered to the Ipod generation. Formatting the sound of the album toward the ipod itself. With computer downloads, mp3's etc, etc. it seems that "compression" over quality is becoming the norm.

In the Metallica example, I have been a fan since 84. Now, i know they are not a good example for the so called "audiophile", but that being said the production on this album is terrible. Actually, worse than their previous album St. Anger. Who makes the call on this? The band, engineer, record company? A combination of all?
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zigonht OP
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Markphd,

I agree, the recording industry is but a shadow of its former self, say 20 yrs ago. A&R reps, Tom Zutaut comes to mind, who actually went to gigs and heard a band and then pitched it to the record exec to be signed is history. So you are probably correct re bands with no major label support are pushing the download aspect of selling their product.

Too bad, it takes away the musical romance of the entire process...lol.
zigonht OP
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Phasecorrect,

It is an improvement over St. Anger but as a fan since 84 it is honestly is not that great. Sad to say...
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