Me too. I'm a former musician that doesn't even own a decent set of speakers. Unless the sound is so bad that it gets in the way of enjoying the song, I don't notice it. I listened to the clips in the sidebar, and couldn't honestly say that I would be able to tell them apart in a blind test.
People don't fall in love with music because of the quality of the recordings. The music I loved was on old, scratched LPs played on a shabby stereo that my Dad got from a frat house. Later, there were the 3rd or 4th generation dubbed cassettes of coolness I couldn't hear on the radio, and probably couldn't buy in a record store even if I had any money. Those got played in a walkman or crappy plastic boom boxes with 3" or 4" cones.
The guys interviewed for the article are highly trained ears. They make their living off of them, so I don't doubt that what they're saying is true. However, I think it is safe to say that the reason why people aren't enjoying listening to pop music has almost nothing to do with the way they mix the music, and has more to do with the fact that what they're mixing are crappy songs.
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People don't fall in love with music because of the quality of the recordings. The music I loved was on old, scratched LPs played on a shabby stereo that my Dad got from a frat house. Later, there were the 3rd or 4th generation dubbed cassettes of coolness I couldn't hear on the radio, and probably couldn't buy in a record store even if I had any money. Those got played in a walkman or crappy plastic boom boxes with 3" or 4" cones.
The guys interviewed for the article are highly trained ears. They make their living off of them, so I don't doubt that what they're saying is true. However, I think it is safe to say that the reason why people aren't enjoying listening to pop music has almost nothing to do with the way they mix the music, and has more to do with the fact that what they're mixing are crappy songs.