31 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

  1. Rick Beato is simply superb at how he explains great music. I count it as the most fortunate accident of birth that my youth was immersed in the greatest live music in the history of the world … which sadly will not likely ever be recreated. Honestly … what a GREAT TIME to have grown up.

    PS I also love ‘Fil’ at Wings of Pegasus and his musical evaluations. Speaking of LIVE … HUMAN … music …

    https://youtu.be/xmYUIZPh-rk?si=s-4rlnLBryYCFr2u

    Fil is also a bloody AMAZING guitarist

  3. He’d have a point, if a higher percentage of younger people could even tell the difference in the first place, let alone stop and smell the roses …….

    1. All the young people fancy themselves musicians because they can operate the software. In a related story … AI generated music will be even worse.

      And in another related story … I can easily demonstrate that Vinyl … played back on even modest quality equipment beats the crap out of any digital playback … despite how lossless it promises to be. And no … not even a fine DAC will fix it.

      1. and i never minded the hiss on the old vinyl and there is something about those lead in pops , like an anticipation

      2. Vinyl will beat any 16 bit 44.1 kHz playback, but as to 24 or 32 bit 192 kHz, I don’t think so, especially as most vinyl comes from a digital master in the first place.

        1. I guess I am a bit more discriminating in my vinyl purchases … mostly all analogue sourced cutting … and top quality, dead silent vinyl. Pops and clicks are caused by people who tossed their vinyl about … unlike the average fastidious audiophile whose 1960’s is still in NM condition.

          1. I think digital recording got big in the late 70s.
            Supertramp, Zeppelin, Sabbath, etc…much of their later work was digital.
            I still maintain that 1977 was the cultural peak of the west.
            I think too much attention is placed on the recording medium, and not enough on the amplifiers and speakers.
            Hi Fidelity actually means high fidelity IMHO.

      3. Maybe, but I have a budget system, two amps in mono , a budget DAC and it doesn’t sound too bad at all.
        Had a Carver amp and preamp , basic nakamichi deck, dual turntable with an expensive cartridge, and good speakers years ago.
        And for a tenth of the price , the sound is pretty damn good.

      4. As with any technology digitization has its upside or downside, depending upon how it’s used. Sadly the popularization of digital production & distribution of music (i.e., CDROMS) has given way to the downside, mostly because audio engineers are largely sophomoric LARPERs who consider rap, grunge & hiphop as music. Music on CD is a lost cause, even an expensive high end DAC is won’t do much, similar to trying to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. On topic – MapleShade/WildChild is one of the best production houses out there, especially for jazz, blues, etc. And please don’t get me started on MP3’s!

  4. I think the bigger problem is both loudness (as in the loudness wars), and a reduction of the dynamic range (all about the base).
    As far as “new” music is concerned, I like Head of the Herd, and Metric wasn’t too bad either.

  5. …then there are the tube-amp people. They’ll complain about CDs clipping everything over 22 kHz, and then use a tube amp that clips everything over 15 kHz, and say it sounds “warm.”

    1. Count me among the tube aficionados. Pair of McIntosh MC275’s monoblocked into English Spendor Classic 100’s

      1. I’d love to have a few beers with you and argue. I bet that a good graphic equalizer clipping everything over 15 kHz would sound the same as a tube amp.
        I know warm is more pleasant, and I have tested CDs vs vinyl, and vinyl is more pleasant, but then I find that the CD didn’t come from the same master, etc.
        I maintain that a nice 32 bit depth 192 kHz sampling rate is the best that can be done, better than all the analogue stuff, but its VERY hard to find.

      3. Kenji, as one who enjoys an eclectic mix of music and has never had a sound “system” of much value, discovered that as I aged, hi fi like high def did not mean mean much when the ears and eyes receiving were of fading quality.

      4. On the topic of hardware, have here a BioTracer turntable (equipped with a Stanton 981 cartridge) coupled to a Yamaha CR3020 monster amp driving a pair of DIY speakers loosely modeled on the Klipsch RF7 with Heil AMTs for mid/high frequencies. A Hughes AK100 rounds sound out very nicely.

        1. Nice. I have a Yamaha A-S3200 on my list “to buy when the wife is away on vacation”. In the meantime some Klipsch 800 II and KEF Meta LS50s will do while I work away on the CSS 1TD Criton speakers (bought the drivers and cross-over, need to get into the woodshop). Powered by a Denon amp, or a cheap Chinese tube amplifier that is surprisingly good for the price. I took a hearing test through my headphones. That was alarming. I’m just going to pretend I have the hearing of a young girl.

  6. I think the amount of good music is close to constant (well, seems to have dropped after 2010), but the amount of crap has increased 100-fold.
    Still, complaining that its almost free now is an ahole stunt.
    Spirit of Radio and all that.

  7. It’s just plain weird to me that I listened to Rick Beato’s interview of George Benson (7 years old and playing for $40 a night Friday and then Saturdays until the police shut it down…) this evening and then see this an hour later at SDA… I regard Beato as a terrific resource for “inside music” and “what makes this song great”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrkvnzdKObY

        1. I paid $75 (not REAL dollars, just Canadian) for my used B & O art being beside the Rega 2
          and $200 for the Rega w Grado cartridge… “never pay retail”

          1. I never do. All my equipment was … gently broken in. Just giving you stick about the B&O. … which was top quality (and design) at the time.

  11. Growing up I listened to King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Camel, Pink Floyd, and the like. I still listen to these 70’s Prog bands. Amazing stuff. In high school we’d often argue about the music and the quality of the musicians in these bands. It was a thing. Plus if you were a rock musician back we’d compete with each other, and we would practice our asses off.
    Compare today to the way we were back then, it’s easy to see why many of us think that music (as in real music) has been slaughtered by the very music industry that helped create it.
    When the likes of people like Taylor Swift is the best they have to offer nowadays. The environment to create real music is long since dead and gone.
    Plus as Frank Zappa pointed out… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZazEM8cgt0

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