Isn't it kinda funny how we think in most cases we've been moving ahead in technology and performance? And yes overall we have. Healthcare, Aerospace, quantum physics, computer power and internet. But how about music? There's certainly alot! But selection and quantity? Back in what I'll call the heyday of audio systems when transistors merged with tubes, and techies met at Boston Audio Society meetings at or near MIT, we worked tirelessly at whatever financial level we were at to tweek and pull the best sound possible from the source to our seats or beanbags :). And today's generation of home theater "philes" would have no idea why we were excited by going to the auto supply department at Benny's for a can of
STP, which we were going to use to enhance our album playback quality.
Well hats off to Steve Jobs, RIP! for being truthful, and enjoying his music over his technology.
I found this on http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Steve Jobs 'listened to vinyl rather than iPods', says Neil Young
Steve Jobs was such a fan of music that he listened to vinyl rather than his
iPod, according to the singer Neil Young.
"Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music. His legacy is tremendous,"
Young, who is campaigning for higher fidelity digital, said. "But when
he went home, he listened to vinyl (albums)."
Young told the "D: Dive Into Media" conference on Tuesday that he
spoke with Jobs about creating a format that has 20 times the fidelity of
files in the most current digital formats, including MP3.
Such a format, he said, would contain 100 per cent of the data of music as it
is created in a studio, as opposed to five per cent in compressed formats
including Apple's AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). Each song would be huge, and
a new storage and playback device might only hold 30 albums. Each song would
take about 30 minutes to download, which is fine if you leave your device on
overnight, he said.
Although Young did not have a practical plan for developing such a format –
saying it's for "rich people" to decide – he said Jobs was on
board with the idea before he died from cancer at age 56 in October.
"I talked to Steve about it. We were working on it," Young said. "You've
got to believe if he lived long enough he would eventually try to do what
I'm trying to do."
Young's opinion of Jobs was confirmed by interviewer Walt Mossberg, a
journalist with News Corp.'s All Things D website, which hosted Jobs at its
conferences.
Mossberg said Jobs expressed surprise that "people traded quality, to the
extent they had, for convenience or price."
An Apple Inc. spokesman declined to comment.
Young also said that "
piracy
is the new radio," suggesting that illegally copying
low-quality songs was an acceptable way for fans to sample music before
buying higher-quality versions.
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