Post: #1

I think cassettes sound better than CDS, MP3's and records.

Am I mad?

Also - remastering is destroying music.

Post: #2

This stems a lot from producers using loudness to hide shit. In Electro music right now especially (not down with the EDM) term producers are getting to open with samples and stabs. When your taking analog stuff you really had to search for clean parts to take out as you would mess up the quality trying to reach for the moon and tweak the hell out of of nice sounding but to muddy stab.

Nowdays people will sample anything, vocals, drum tracks whatever is in the background they just re-master and re-process the hell out of it to hide the flaws. Evrey time you do this though you loose quality and especially so with digital music. I have to yell at my DJ sometimes because he does not source music at top quality of the start, if your pumping in weak quality off the bat then down the road you will pay dearly for it.

Its like a football field you only have the hashmarks and end lines to operate in. You go out of bounds and the play is done, nowadays everybody likes running on the sidelines when there is still open looks on the opposite hash-mark. I was raised with hip-hop and even with beats you had to make them knock but you always set aside space for the bass and kick. You didn't want to crowd that low-mid range because you could get some extra *ooommmmppppfff* and Jeep shacking if you knew what you were doing. A lot of kats would muddle their samples to low into that region and mudd of the drums making them sound like junk.

Plus another thing is that people are listening to music in crappy ways these days. Downprocessed tracks on YouTube at 128k or less with crappy ear buds on iPhones that IMO do a crappy job of equalizing and projecting music out. People don't notice how crappy the quality of the music they are listening to until they plug their iPhone into a proper system and hear for themselves.

Old Mp3 players and Discmans prior I always felt for the most part even on the lower-end of machines you could find many that pumped out decent sounds but now with the proliferation of Iphones and Youtube.. not so much.

The reason Cassette and Records sound better is because its real audio being played back. Its a real signal and not a digital interpretation.

Post: #3

Good thread. But, watch me remaster the title of that second track and improve it:

Original: Smells Like Teen Spirit

Remastered: Smells Like Teen Spirit Pussy

Post: #4

I'm a music quality freak and have hundreds of full cd's that I downloaded and burned. They're all at least 192 kbps or vbr quality. It's as close as you'll ever get to cd quality without actually buying the physical cd. I have a stack of lower quality cd's that are 128 kbps and still gotta track them down online, but some of it's real hard to find rap and I probably never will.


That Nirvana cd was re released and re mastered a few times like most rock albums. I borrowed the cd from a library a while back and saw a lot of reviews on Amazon saying the latest version sounded like shit. I popped it in and could tell right away it was different from what I remembered as a kid. I think the bass and drums were loud as fuck and overshadowing the guitar or something. I ended up just downloading a group rip of the original or regular version from the 90's. Now, I always check on re releases and see how other music freaks compare them before I download something.

I started getting obsessed with the quality after listening to people's burnt cd's in systems when I was younger. You can tell right away with a bad quality rap mp3 coming out of subs or decent speakers. Most people don't give a fuck about their music quality or speakers though. I would suggest everyone who drives to at least get a decent head unit, put sound deadener on all the doors and rear speaker deck, put a component speaker system up front and maybe replace the rears if it's an older car or they're blown. Power the component system with an amp if you have the cash. Your music will sound 100x better/clearer, be at least a few times louder and the car will be so much more quiet from the deadener when the music is off. Of course, you gotta add sub(s) if you really want to feel the bass.