He has some good points. On a somewhat related note, anyone familiar with the phenomenon of Out of Phase Stereo (OOPS)? I discovered it by accident years ago when my Walkman headphones used to short out. It amounts to rearranging the 4 wires of the left and right speaker channels so that any audio elements that were mixed to be only heard on the left or right channel are heard very prominently. Like if a piano was mixed to only come out the left speaker you would hear it very clearly when listening to the song with OOPS. It usually results in a dull mono mix of most songs with the vocals way off in the background but occasionally you will hear an instrument track that you never really noticed was there. I can achieve this effect by pulling my iPod headphones partway. Google "out of phase stereo" for a website that talks more about it.

I think the solutoin to all these audio issues is this

songs need to be sold on a blue ray or DVD disk the disk should contain seperate data tracks for every channel in the song say up to a max of 30 channels. that way people can chose how they want to listen to the music , profesoinal mixers can relaise "filters" which are esentualy controlers that tell your HIFI what levels to play things back at.

when you buy the disk and shuv it in your player , it simplay plays back with the defult filter that the bands editor would have composed. but with simple tweeking a user could edit the sogn to work best with there hifi / player or best with what they like.

its strange to me that with high quality music we are still esentualy in the 60s with the amount of controle and neglect of technoligy.

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Does that make it a dupe?

"I mean, he's still super-fit, but when you get up real close, he's like totally at the age where men start to look like somebody's aunt." -The Monarch

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IIRC, this was the guy who mastered "Dude looks like a lady."