Capital Audiofest and Chester Group – Audiophiledom Feb 27, 2015
Good news for the Capital Audiofest, I think, getting access to more marketing and promotional juice.
Every year we hear good things about this show and how both exhibitors and attendees get a lot out of it.
The Vinyl Factory has a piece on Eno thinking sound engineers have gone too far in their reliance on digital.
It was about 10 years ago that they used a computer to generate ‘new’ Beethoven symphonies [by programming a computer with his basic patterns and rhythms, etc.]. At this point, any popular musician who has a sound [like Eno] can be imitated by both humans and computer.
How does a musician differentiate themselves? Is it REALLY by going analogue?
Or is it by changing up the sound from album to album like Radiohead. Or by playing so many, many concerts, and giving them away like the Dead thereby making imitations entertaining, but in the end worthless.
And then we have Krell being awarded a plaque by Honda.
“In recognition of continuous dedication to The Advanced Technology”
Does anybody else wonder about the English here and, ignoring that, what does this mean? That Krell is continually advancing Krell’s technology?
This is nice for audiophiledom, but there is a battle going on for the dashboard, and Apple, having been rejected, is working on building their own cars.
Ever think about the massive captive audience when people are stuck in their automatically driving cars for an hour a day with nothing to do but play with the dash?
Maybe Apple will buy a [real, not Beats] high-end audio company next for their auto factory.
That’s all for today folks. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.
