The future of the high-end and what's wrong with today's youth

[PhilR]

Given that there's no actual conceivable way to create a stereo that objectively reproduces music since there is no such agreed upon set of criteria which to measure its performance, I would say that today's youth are taking the more pragmatic approach to their music consumption experience which is to adjust their stereo in such a way that it sounds good to them and it may very well be that the music that they're listening to was intended to be listened to exactly the way they are doing it.We have to consider that it may actually not be unfortunate or inaccurate at all, given the genre you may be referencing.

 

That's a really good point. From their beginnings, hip-hop & rap has been produced to give maximum bass punch on boomboxes and then car stereos. Many square feet worth of woofers in the trunk fed with thousands of watts are creating the exact experience the music is made for.

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Might amuse you :

 

Picturing Spader cranking up the music out through his 3rd storey bay windows out over Washington Park... just so he could hear it walking out and coming home from a walk with his dog. Gorgeous.

 

That made me smile. Thanks for sharing [emoji846]

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That made me smile. Thanks for sharing [emoji846]

 

No worries—as us antipodeans say

 

You might like too (but perhaps less of Colbert) :

[bluesman]

[i submit that music was more important to the 60+ group than it is to the iPod generation.

I disagree & offer an alternative theory. Music was a larger part of our lives because there was less stuff to compete for our time, our attention & our dollars. Travel was costly & difficult. Bicycles were cheap. We had only a winter coat & a summer coat. Sneakers were $20. There were no cell phones, no iPods and no Amazon. Records were $3. We laid on the floor and listened to records with our dates, and we loved it. Some went for high end and most had RCA or KLH etc - but we all had a blast.

 

As for the OP, it's simply way off base. SaaS is an application model, not a content model. The limitations on availability are no different for hard media or cloud sources - I can't buy new CDs by Jack Mack & the Heart Attack because there aren't any. So why would it be any different if all my music came from a cloud? Market forces will still dictate availability.

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No worries—as us antipodeans say

 

You might like too (but perhaps less of Colbert) :

 

Spader is an interesting fella. Big fan of Colbert's, but I'd agree - less would have been more. Forget the Blacklist - I wanted to hear more about his peculiar musical tastes!

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I've not watched much Colbert... But, browsing, found :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku6cI5v70MQ

 

Spader is an interesting fella. Big fan of Colbert's, but I'd agree - less would have been more. Forget the Blacklist - I wanted to hear more about his peculiar musical tastes!

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I've not watched much Colbert... But' date=' browsing, found :

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Laurie Anderson is awesome. Nice post... but probably belongs in another thread [emoji846]

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Today's youth has gone-to-the-dogs (and what's higher-end than a live-performance ?)

 

Laurie Anderson is awesome. Nice post... but probably belongs in another thread [emoji846]