Digital, iPods, vinyl, and audio quality

Music consultant Bob Lefsetz:

I wanted to write and tell you how fucking great CDs without compression were.  Instead I’m gonna write how great VINYL is!

In which even an audiophile CD^[1] is emotionally less satisfying than vinyl

...I don’t have a subwoofer.  But, there was suddenly this ooze all over the floor of my house.  The same one that permeated the environment when I used to play “Long Time Gone” on that first Crosby, Stills & Nash album.  You know how you feel the bass, how it locates somewhere between your gut and your genitalia?  How it makes you feel like you’re truly at the live show?  That’s the sound I’ve got right now in my house.

Then there was that organ.  I didn’t hear the organ before.  Or at least didn’t notice it.

And when the piano plays, I can SEE IT!
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It sounds like…music...
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I felt the audiophile CD. But it wasn’t warm.  It was a silicone tit, not the real thing....
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I’m convinced we’ve got this rhythmic music dominating the charts today because acoustic music, music with dynamic range, sounds so shitty on CD.

So who’s to blame:  The producer, the engineer, or the technology?

(ACKs to John Gorman for pointing me to Lefsetz’s blog.)
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