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As a contemporary artist you've got to be increasingly sure that your work looks damn good in .jpg form (see: markets current preoccupation with bold, flat abs
by 80 12y ago
As a contemporary artist you've got to be increasingly sure that your work looks damn good in .jpg form
(see: markets current preoccupation with bold, flat abstract works)
- cmelbye 12y agoIf this product or others similar to it can't properly depict three dimensional art—that is, using a format other than a static .jpg image—I'd say they're doing it wrong.
- Zigurd 12y agoFine art photography made a transition from all chemical to 90% digital, yet the manipulated RAW image is treated identically to a negative. I find that remarkable. The other thing that's remarkable is how accepting people are of highly compressed and decimated jpg images on uncalibrated monitors for viewing the work of professional photographers (while wearing $400 headphones, listening to highly compressed mp3s). It is also remarkable that Neil Young is among the first to try to fix the fidelity issue, for music anyway. I hope someone sees that photography and images of other fine art need something analogous.
- dublinben 12y agoNeil Young and his snake oil are nowhere near the first attempts to sell high fidelity audio. You're forgetting reel to reel tape, DAT, SACD, DVDaudio, HDtracks, and any number of other ventures.
- lukifer 12y agoPart of the difference is that audio is temporal, while an image is static. The odds of noticing an artifact in an well-compressed MP3 are small; the psycho-acoustic model is built on the assumption that many frequencies will be discarded by the brain anyway, and so the listener won't notice their absence. However, an image doesn't change moment to moment, so the eye is free to wander and immerse, and thereby notice some oddly pixelated macroblocks that would have been ignored with a momentary glance.
- cma 12y agoNeil Young's player does thing like add in fake record pops to make things sound retro. It may or may not have a good DAC, but is mostly a gimmick device.
- anigbrowl 12y agoOn Neil Young, there were a bunch of FLAC-compatible portable music players on the market 2 years ago: http://www.cnet.com/news/best-mp3-players-with-flac/ http://www.cnet.com/news/best-mp3-players-with-flac/ * Free Lossless Audio Codec The super-high sample rate stuff is totally bogus, and I say that as an audio professional of many years' standing. Neil Young is a nice guy, but Pono is basically a branding exercise, not a technical innovation.
- 001sky 12y agoInstagram has sort of killed the concept of colour fidelity.
- niels_olson 12y agoI find it interesting that some of the best audiophile education I got was on torrent sites. The scum of the earth apparently think hard about Laplace transforms