Apple has killed audio quality, says Neil Young
Posted by: deepgoa on: July 24, 2008
via: www.afterdawn.com
Rock star Neil Young made some interesting comments at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference yesterday including his suggestion that music sound quality has been “dumbed down to Fisher-Price toy levels” since the inception of the iPod.
“Apple has taken a detour down the convenience highway,” Young said. “Quality has taken a complete backseat – if it even gets in the car at all.”
Young spoke out about the poor audio quality of the most popular audio codec, MP3, and also talked about his “long-term, multimedia archiving project of his entire career” which will be available as a series of Blu-ray discs. Young hopes his project will become the basis for an alternative digital platform with higher quality sound.
The artist spent most of his time expressing his feelings at the decline in audio standards and put the blame mainly on companies such as Apple who he feels have “an increasing focus on convenience versus quality.”
“We have beautiful computers now but high-resolution music is one of the missing elements,” he said. “The ears are the windows to the soul.”
3 Responses to "Apple has killed audio quality, says Neil Young"
January 13, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Neil Young can’t sing? Come on give me a break! I’m cool if you say “I don’t like his voice”, but from a musician’s point of view, he certainly CAN sing and so can BD.
January 14, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Interesting, since Apple doesn’t use MP3, but now encodes the higher-quality AAC at a much higher bitrate than is available at any other store.
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January 13, 2009 at 10:16 pm
And, while I file Mr. Young in the same basket as Bob Dylan, why would I want crystal clear quality to expose bad singing. Let’s be real. He can write, but he can’t sing. It’s good that he cares but c’mon.