Has anyone here checked out that forum?
To me, it seems a miserable, mean-spirited place, full of baby boomers from the U.S displaying American solipsism.
I actually have no idea who he is, I've just wound up on that forum a few times to trawl the John Lennon 'I'm Losing You' thread, in the hope that some video would leak (it eventually did, although whether or not it had anything to do with the people on there I have no idea).
Day dop wrote:
Has anyone here checked out that forum?
To me, it seems a miserable, mean-spirited place, full of baby boomers from the U.S displaying American solipsism.
Depends where you're looking. Sure, there are a lot of numpties who think that music isn't the same these days, but you get that anywhere you go on the internet. I've found some interesting things here and there, and regularly engage in discussion, but it's few and far between. It's like any other forum; I tend to look at things that interest me, and stay away from things that don't.
Day dop wrote:
This article seems to sum up that forum: link
Yep, pretty bang on. It's still true nearly a decade later.
"censors out anything that either dares to challenge that dogma and anything that might either paint Hoffman in anything less than devout sainthood, or might conflict with his sales objectives"
... which is pretty much how every website and facebook page is now. Everyone from the Food Babe to Jordan Peterson knows who butters their bread, and their pages are censored and catered to their audiences accordingly.
Of course anything goes on youtube or reddit, but if people can control the message, they will. And Hoffman does it expertly.
Hoffman remastered Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album. However, I preferred the 2013 version CD version and commented as such. Next time I looked, my comments had all been deleted.
A good example of how retarded (sorry to use that word) it is. While discussing the new Bowie remasters in wincingly contradictory terms, someone complained of a flapping noise on his copy during the chorus of the title track of Scary Monsters and asked if others could hear it and moaned about having a faulty disc.
Of course, turned out he'd never actually heard the song before and didn't realise it was a 'feature' of the track. And there he was lording it about the fidelity of the remaster.
Clown.
Absolutely. Some of it's fascinating. But also there they have a rather skewed enjoyment of music - I've found myself questioning my personal set up and masterings of things. Then I realised I'm normal and I just like what I like.
dysan, re:
>But also there they have a rather skewed enjoyment of music
Seems to me that, in many cases on the SHF site, people with incredibly expensive set ups and huge collections of vinyl have an inflated sense of self-importance and that, by extension, their opinion is right.
You know what you hear, what you'd LIKE To hear and what disturbs you. Anything outside of that is of no one's business other than to challenge in conversation.
"The SHF is an absolute education once past the surface.
HERE, there is rarely ANYTHING of merit."
An absolute education of what though?
American-centrism?
How cranky elderly people get?
The consequences of tinnitus?
But seriously, there's very little of worth on that forum that you can't find out elsewhere.
That forum helped me track down some original Genesis masters since I don't like the 2007 remasters with some exceptions. That's the only experience I have with them.
I will say that I much prefer the Steve remastered (I think he collaborated with someone) version of Phil Collins' "...But Seriously". The original was really tinny and flat sounding since the mastering engineer at the time added a lot of top end, according to Steve.
I've included a small sample of both Steve's remaster and the original master and I've kept it as a wav so that it isn't affected by compression.
What do you think? link
The reason I don't like many of the modern Genesis remasters(they are remixes, really) is because. besides remixing songs that were once familiar but are now not the mixes I know and love, they make the stereo sound field too wide and pulled apart sounding as well as being harshly eq'd and compressed to my ears.
I definitely prefer the 2007 remix of "Calling All Stations" to the original as well as the 1983 "Mama" album.