I was an audiophile in those days. The most amazing thing hearing Mark Knopfler guitar on a really good system — expensive stuff especially speakers were required. No crappy compressed CDs — pure analog. Maybe some new high-res lossless 192kHz digital might work but haven’t set that up yet to compare. If you’ve never heard it properly, the pick of a guitar string sounds completely different and “real” compared to what we are used to now.
@haydesigner I forgot that whole system. I also had a high-end (at the time) Denon CD player (late 80s?) and did a lot of listening to compare. Yes CDs were more practical. And CDs weren’t terrible. Just that from an engineering perspective, there was a serious limitation with high frequencies and high harmonics caused by 16-bit 44kHz sampling which was a compromise given technology at the time.
And then one day you find
10 years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
/youtube Pink Floyd time
Gawd, I’m old.
Lal la la I can’t hear you
In denial all the way.
We gotta move these expired gum-mies
We gotta move these I-R-Kayayyyyyys
@ItalianScallion Did MTV ever figure out they were being mocked?
@ItalianScallion
Money for nothin’
And the IRKs for free
@blaineg @ItalianScallion
MTV made huge money being mocked, so they were fine with it
Opting to be the lone serious comment here, I have to say that the title song is perhaps the most perfect song ever written.
/youtube Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
@haydesigner I’d never seen it with that video. excellent. Hard to argue with your “most perfect” vote.
Another excellent one — one of my favorites 1982-83. Also deep lyrics. And of course course amazing guitar.
/youtube Dire Straits Telegraph Road
@pmarin this is a live version from 1983. Also shortened. This one is a Dolby Atmos version.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/telegraph-road-live-remix-2022-remaster/1623501105?i=1623501115
I was an audiophile in those days. The most amazing thing hearing Mark Knopfler guitar on a really good system — expensive stuff especially speakers were required. No crappy compressed CDs — pure analog. Maybe some new high-res lossless 192kHz digital might work but haven’t set that up yet to compare. If you’ve never heard it properly, the pick of a guitar string sounds completely different and “real” compared to what we are used to now.
@pmarin funnily enough, I believe “Brothers in Arms” was the first fully digital album of the CD age.The DDD designation.
@haydesigner I forgot that whole system. I also had a high-end (at the time) Denon CD player (late 80s?) and did a lot of listening to compare. Yes CDs were more practical. And CDs weren’t terrible. Just that from an engineering perspective, there was a serious limitation with high frequencies and high harmonics caused by 16-bit 44kHz sampling which was a compromise given technology at the time.