Last night I get involved in a hot discussion about sound quality. There were four persons around a bar table talking about music, a traditional dj that allways use vinyl records, a musician, a sound technic and a music fanatic (this is me). Then the conversation derivated to the formats, how the industry had been changing them along the years allways to cheap formats, but not for the public, and worst sound quality . How the last created technologies are trying to set the mp3 as a standard, although it has a very bad quality, specially when it's used in professional equipment and high volume levels, like for example in a club.
It's true, all of us that had been traditional dj's before digital had felt it, and if you didn't there's a thing that you must try and could confirm it playing your favourite release in a good vinyl record or an original cd and the same music in mp3. Let me to set the mp3 example in the best codification anybody can get in order forget the worst (downloaded from any mp3 legal download site or wherever anybody get it). The difference is notable, but today more and more people, like in this site, are playing mp3, with the knowledge that this is not the best sound. (and many people in the crowd don't fell the difference or don't matter about this questions).
What do you think guys? For me, sound quality is more important than tricks, i feel very bad when I find some VERY GOOD music that is impossible to play in a gig due to its bad sound. At the end this is only a thing to talk about. Don't take me so seriously because I'm only a music fan that appreciate very much sound quality and get very angry with people that not take care in it.
Thanks anyway.
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