“If you’re an artist and you created something and you knew the master was 100 percent great, but the consumer got 5 percent, would you be feeling good?”
Neil Young, who, I mean I’ve read a lot of boring Head-Fi threads on this and I think he might be close to correct since masters have a lot of headroom for mixing and stuff, but this seems kind of disingenuous and in practical terms wholly incorrect. I have a lot of problems with some modern recordings, but I’m pretty sure they don’t represent only 5% of the sound artists are creating in a studio.
After 50+ years of rocking out, maybe all Young can hear is 5% of the music.
