The Death of High Fidelity : Rolling Stone

The Death of High Fidelity
In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever

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It’s always good to see mainstream press on this topic and Rolling Stone speaks directly to an audience that cares about music.

You Know You’ve Made it When . . .

Of course Richard “made it” quite a few years ago.

Engineer Richard King Chooses Genelec 8050A Monitors

Richard King, a former Sony Studios engineer who is noted for his work on film scores, classical and jazz recordings, recently set up his own high-end editing suite, RK Recording LLC, at his home just outside New York City. King reports that he relies heavily on Genelec 8050A bi-amplified active monitors in his new facility.

Getting your metadata into Windows Media Player

Some people are confused about CD-Text. They think a disc has to be mastered with CD-Text in order for the information to show up in a consumer’s iTunes when they put the CD in their computer. Not at all. You only need to submit the data to CDDB (using iTunes) and in a day or less the info is there for everyone. This is a service a good mastering house will supply to their clients.

So what about the poor sap who needs to have the data show up in Windows Media Player? It turns out the WMP looks up data from All Music Guide. So you’d figure there’d be a mechanism for doing this sort of thing for WMP.

You’d figure wrong.

AMG will add any product submissions we receive to the database as long as they are commercially available in their country of release. The best way to ensure that your title receives full coverage is for you to send us one copy of the product along with any relevant promotional materials, such as press releases and artist photos.

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Remarkable, no? One more reason iTunes owns this market.

Maximize Your Inputs with Aggregate Audio

It’s easy to do this with a third-party digital audio interface that connects to your computer via a USB or FireWire cable. And thanks to your Mac’s Aggregate Audio feature, you can maximize your input track count by recording through several such devices simultaneously. This tutorial shows you how.

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A Pro Techniques tip from Apple.

In defense of audiophiles

Nearly 25 years ago, I walked into a “high-end audio” store for the first time. I intended to write an article exposing the enterprise – $10,000 amplifiers, $5,000 turntables, and the like – as a fraud. Could this souped-up gear sound that much better than mass-market stuff at one-tenth the price?

After a few seconds of listening, my agenda – and really, my life – took a new direction.

. By Fred Kaplan – Slate Magazine

A fun read and the story includes links to many other audio related stories at Slate.