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Post Subject: Insulting FM experience at Romy'sPosted by yoshi on: 8/13/2008
Last night, I got an oppotunity to hear what Romy's been screaming about the quality of FM broadcast. Yes, it is in an "insulting" level. The biggest surprise was the harmonic integrity live-broadcasts presents us. Not only with orchestral works (well, especially with orchestral works), but even with solo piano or violin pieces, the richness and the integrity of harmonics are amazing. Compared to these live-broadcasts, the other recorded medium (CDs & LPs) sounds more or less like an androids created by chopped body pieces put together by mad scientist.
Is the difference inherent to the recording/mastering process? I don't know and Romy says he doesn't know either, but if it's mainly the result of the ignorance and stupidity of recording/mastering engineers, they should be hung for the crime against humanity!
On the other hand, I wish it's because of the ignorance and stupidity of recording/mastering engineers, so there's a hope that, someday, a super genius engineer re-masters all the great recordings in the past to the level of live FM broadcasts, or something close to it.
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