Comments on: Has the music died, or was it never True Love in the first place?

By: Mike Foley

Mike Foley — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:42:25 +0000

Silly Metallica! Surely it’s in the artists interest to achieve the best possible sound quality? Well recorded music will always sound half decent via a poor system, and absolutely stunning on a good quality hi-fi. Mixed for desktop might be ok through such speakers, but will sound pretty dire on good gear. A pox on dynamic range compression!

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:28:25 +0000

It’s been suggested that Metallica’s “And Justice for All” is mixed perfectly for laptop speakers. Though Jason Newstead might not agree….

By: Mike Foley

Mike Foley — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:24:04 +0000

To be charitable, at least she admits that she made a mistake. It is difficult to fully appreciate music if one is listening to a compressed mp3, or similar, through a pair of desktop speakers. You get the general gist of the music, but miss most of the subtle details, and listening becomes a chore not a pleasure. If she had kept her CDs and had a quality music system I doubt she would have lost interest.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:52:52 +0000

I had a major problems with CD storage a few years ago. Nowhere to put them so they were piled up around the living room. Must have been about 2005 when I contacted a local carpenter and got him to make some CD shelves for me. The ones they sell in the shops were totally unsuitable so I designed some to my own spec and gave him a diagram and measurements to the millimetre. They were designed to fix to the wall so that when they were fitted, they took up no space whatsoever in the front room. Two shelves that join together, six rows high and a slightly higher top row for DVDs. No wasted space, they look good, but cost me Â£200. It was very pleased with them. I thought there would be lots of free space, but then discovered a load of new music and they’re full up and I’ve ended up with loads of them in boxes.

The journalist does no favours to the industry that she works in by throwing away her entire collection. And if she’s just streaming music through standard computer speakers, then its just going to sound like background music at best. Most modern televisions have a PC channel. So I’ve got my computer wired to the television PC channel as a monitor for sound and vision. She has a solution. But there’s no chance of my throwing my CDs away.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:47:21 +0000

There's a big difference between thinning out stuff that's taking up too much space, and throwing out everything. I still maintain you're getting rid of an entire record collection either the music was never that important, or there are some serious neuroses involved.

By: Serdar

Serdar — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:41:21 +0000

I’m decluttering right now (trust me, we need it badly), but I’m keeping just about my entire CD collection.