I would be very happy to have your support and your audience that, on the whole, has no idea of the severity of the problem as well as where to turn for solutions.

My company is about to start a global campaign in defense of Music – this unseen and misunderstood Invisible Art that for over 30 years had an increasingly rough ride at the hands of a new generation of clueless music ‘businessmen’ – inept digital audio packagers for want of a more polite description. I will also bring to your attention DSD format which, at last, saved the face of digital audio and allowed music to be properly recorded retaining all its analogue essentials and many things besides – things that allow us to hear and enjoy music for a change again. I will point to the real issues that had practically dragged Her Majesty Music to the compressed digital no-res gutter. Marc, please do write to me using your personal email and I will provide you with detailed overview of what has happened to music in the last 50 years. Sophie’s experience is a trap, that, if we’re honest, we’ve all fallen into at one point or another since the rise of MP3 at the turn of the century. Combine this with the increasingly passive and fickle listening experience that streamed music encourages, and you can begin to see why people start to forget why they loved music in the first place. Claiming, and I quote ‘Streaming music has made it so dull I’ve lost all interest in it’. Powerful words, but I suspect that what she’s experiencing is not so much a consequence of losing the physical medium, but more of a side effect from going all compressed.

As an example, Sophie Heawood of the Guardian writes a fantastic piece about her experience of selling off all her music and going digital. Badly compressed music can sound tinny, lifeless, or even distorted, and this has a knock on impact when it comes to our emotions.

The truth is, compressed music – particularly badly compressed examples – is that it just doesn’t have the same effect on us emotionally.

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