The Day the Music Burned

[sphinxsix]

What about fire safety in this place.? It's like saying 'all gold disappeared from Fort Knox, we didn't think it was possible to steal it'.

Anyway not to get too gloomy here - no master quality authentication is possible in the case of the lost tapes, so the thousands of recordings should never appear in MQA format 

[sphinxsix]

11 hours ago, esldude said:

Music remastering is as bad as the sausage factory.  You really don't want to know what goes into your sausage or what goes on there. 

 

1 hour ago, firedog said:

In other words, they couldn't give a **** for SQ or music history in most cases.

Seems that in general they don't.. The music industry has screwed not only the musicians but also us - the listeners for decades. To paraphrase Frank Zappa they are only in it for the money after all with zero or little regard for anything else..

 

4 hours ago, firedog said:

Aren't we glad that Sony digitized their  catalog to DSD all those years ago for archive purposes.

All companies should have done so right after the hi-res formats had become available.

 

Some general conclusion - IMO the situation calls for a couple more music formats - MCQA (Master Copy Quality Authenticated), MCCQA (Master Copy Copy..) etc... and finally WTFKWTQA (Who The F..k Knows What's That but we authenticate our file's faithfulness to this source anyway)!   

 

[sphinxsix]

32 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I wonder if there is a major difference between labels that are / aren't public companies that need to hit quarterly numbers for shareholders. 

IMO it's quite probable there is one. Only anarcho-sindicalism can save the world in the long run!