The Current Decline of High Fidelity Sound

I recently read a Rolling Stone article about The Death of High Fidelity by Robert Levine. In the article he talks about how we are losing appreciation for high fidelity sound due to the popularity of MP3s. There is also mention of how one should be cautious of buying recently remastered music as some of the audio engineers are tweaking the sound so that it sounds louder and has more punch when compressed in MP3 format. The article is worth reading.

I admit that I have a lot of my music compressed to MP3 due to convenience of portability but have always been a purist at heart. I still enjoy being able to listen to the uncompressed version on high fidelity equipment. Even better if you are listening to SACD and/or DVD-Audio quality sound.

I hope that the compression trend will change in years to come as the price of storage technology goes down so that home media servers as well as portable devices will be able to store more uncompressed audio. I would rather see the appreciation of high fidelity sound reclaimed rather than lost.

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