"The Death of High Fidelity"

I just bought a James Blunt CD, while at the same time, a remastered Doors CD. The Doors CD was exciting, dynamic, and musical. The new James Blunt was flat, and two dimensional, products of being compressed. I doubt I will play that boring CD again. It's a pity, because I like James Blunt.

Muralman,

Yes it is true very little if any pop music is even mildly OK sounding today.

I occasionally dip back in the past and listen to CD's from the 80's....Simple Minds, Peter Gabriel, INXS, Tom Petty.....it is so sad because the sound back then was FANTASTIC compared to the total GARAGE that producers/engineers churn out today.

Country stuff out of Nashville is often extremely good today but "popular" music is generally being destroyed through compression techniques....

One reason why I prefer 'old school' vinyl.

Here's a link to the article "The Death of High Fidelity"

http://wilburland.blogspot.com/2007/12/death-of-high-fidelity.html

Pretty good read, but doesn't say anything most of us don't know already

It is also that Pop artists use to record in large professional studios. Now that digital equipment is cheap and does not take up a lot of space, a lot of them have their own studios at home. I wonder if the same care is taken by whoever monitors the equipment in these home studios? Evidently not a lot. I also wonder about the acoustics in some of them?

A good friend has a nephew who is a producer in Nashville with quite a few production Grammy's. While he does have his own studio in Nashville, He also does make "house calls".