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So, iPods huh?

If I’m being honest, after existing with this music box for a while (later than the masses) and listening to all of my favorite records back to back to back or on shuffle; the sound quality of the tunes is just not doing it for me. After a while I started noticing myself having to turn up the volume when a Billy Joel, Bob Dylan or Fishbone song came on…but when it would shuffle back to a newer tune by System Of A Down or The Mars Volta the volume would be way too loud.

The reason is that because of the popularity of mp3s, music is being engineered, mixed and mastered differently, even old classics are being re-mastered in a way that we lose the beauty of what the musicians originally wanted us to hear. There is no low end, no high end or dynamics between loud and quiet parts of songs anymore and it sucks! I’m dying a slow musical death in this era of “let’s make one hit and make sure it sounds good on a MySpace page or someone’s iPod.” Listen to Music From The Big Pink by The Band released in 1968; every song is great and every song SOUNDS great, the same can be said for Wilco‘s newest Sky, Blue Sky.

This may sound really old fashioned but do yourself a favour and if you have some old skool music on your iPod that has been re-issued or re-mastered go try to find it on vinyl or even CD and listen to the difference through good speakers or headphones and I promise you’ll hear how music is supposed to be heard. OR at the very VERY least make sure you set your iTunes to rip at 192 kbps (it’s probably set at 128).

Oh yeah…we have a kickass year end show on MuchMoreMusic.

December 31 @ 6pm ET, interviews with Gene Simmons, Alicia Keys, Slash, Debbie Harry, Dane Cook and LOTS more. I even get nasty and let you know what interviews SUCKED…like Tila Tequila and Carrie Underwood.

Bah Humbug (but seriously, I hope your holidays are rad)
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Posted on Friday, December 21st, 2007 at 5:07 pm by Jodie E. and is filed under Music & Videos.

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