I will have to wait until I am back in the UK to open the photos.

https://www.soundonsound.com/people/ste ... sic-albums

This is a good read and informative. An interesting tangent about musical genius moving on.

Blackberry Smoke drummer Brit Turner, only 57.
Saw them when they were in town a few years back?
RIP

https://news.sky.com/story/apple-fined- ... s-13087136

About time too.

I am firmly in the Luddite camp. Music means musicians playing instruments and singers singing.

"This computerised crap ain't getting me off.:

Fretless wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:47 am The Bluetooth/Spotify generation are the reason for the Compression - and they accept it as 'normal'.

Do they ever listen to live music? It is dynamic and this is part of the attraction. No need to go to a concert, just find a street busker.

I see it as a downward spiral. Dynamic compression used because so few people listen via hi-fi systems. Low interest in buying hi-fi because almost all modern music is so dynamically compressed. This hits the nail on the head and the situation is not going to change. We can only hope that someday m...

Excessive compression is very audible to me and all to common. The most recent example is the Ace Frehely album which came out last week and is completely brickwalled. I read a scathing review from a leading rock critic who described the album as sounding flat and lifeless. He did not use the word c...

https://www.itwriting.com/blog/91-the-l ... d-bad.html

This article explains the problem very well. It must be around 15 years old and things have got worse since, where popular music is concerned.

TheMarlin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:07 pm All mine are hosted in Imgur. If you get the Imgur app, it should open the image in Imgur app if you double click/press, and you can share again from there.

Don't have Imgur, but there is no problem in the UK.