Comments | viridian5: Not What It Used to Be

viridian5

Not What It Used to Be

Feb 09, 2005 00:06

It bothers me that a lot of songs i loved in the 80s don't sound like on modern players. They sound tinny and incomplete. You don't get all the levels you used to get. The absence of bass sounds odd.

Depeche Mode's Violator was revelatory and multi-layered, pulsing, on the players of its time. Now it sounds shallow, with pieces submerged and the ( Read more... )

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viridian5 February 10 2005, 01:54:36 UTC

I was never allowed to touch my parents' vinyl, so I have less connection. My music medium was cassette tape and preferred mode of listening via headphones so I could hear different parts of the songs bounce through my ears and into my head.

stungunbilly February 10 2005, 03:47:47 UTC

Are you listening to mp3s? Or cd?

viridian5 February 10 2005, 04:09:19 UTC

CD. The only equipment I have to listen to MP3s on is my computer, which is hardly optimized for music.

stungunbilly February 10 2005, 04:27:05 UTC

I know what you mean about lost sound; some of that is due to digitalization, but you'd think with all the tech they could do better with it. Nothing matches live, but headphones used to come close at times.