…are some of the most pretentious people in the art world. Took me a while to see it but it’s really just a bunch of dicks boasting about frequencies they can barely hear a difference in.
You’re really going to stop listening to an amazing band because their album sounds too over-compressed to your ears? Is it an audiophile sin to actually get a rush out of listening to your favorite song out of a shitty set of $10 novelty speakers?
What’s next? Going to a live show with amazing energy and having a shit time because the front of house engineer didn’t get a decent mix?
Yes, there’s a science to audio but please, don’t forget that the your jobs are to make music sound the best it can, not to circlejerk about how lacking the song is in the 17-20kHz range. You give an amazing guitar a shitty sounding guitar and they’ll make art. That’s what it’s all about. Don’t get caught up on technicalities. You’ll end up looking like a dick.
