GoodSoundClub - Romy the Cat's Audio Site

In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where?

Post Subject: Fog of warPosted by steverino on: 3/21/2014

I understand the theory of how HD Tracks should operate and am not saying they are doing everything they could. However if you read the Fremer article with Bob Ludwig you can see where the problem lies. It's not as if Ludwig is confessing to deceit. He is bluffing and obfuscating and angrily denying. Now Ludwig is an excellent remasterer but he is stuck with whatever tripe the artists bring him. He does not want to alienate the artists so he blusters and denies. Fremer does care about sonics but doesn't want to alienate Ludwig so he throws BS around to obscure the facts. HDTracks cannot adjudicate all these various contentions by convening an outside panel since the panel is taken from the same group of industry players who all deal with the situation daily and play along with it. Not that the public at large has any great problem with it.

I do agree that since the people buying HDTracks items are more interested in audiophile sonics, HDTracks and similar sites don't have a bright future since they can't control the music labels effectively, given the smallness of the audiophile market. So their customers are likely to slowly drift away as they pay more for MP3 files in disguise.

Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site