Elf wrote:
Jarre thinks we've become like archivists, walking around with our music in our pockets. - We no longer care about how we are listening to music. So my reasons for designing sound systems are purely artistic. [/b]
Hard to believe. Why Iphones and Ipods, which are not the best audio products in that case?
If he wants to reach the top of the pyramide, like GlennFolkvord said, or if he really cares about how listening to music, he would rather have worked on top products, like Cowon, Iriver or Hifiman, even Samsung P4 or Sony.
Apple audio products are the best example of how marketing reaches the masses which prefer to own nice objects (like ipods) despite they are not very good music players. Or how to put sound quality to the background (just the same with those horrible headphones Beats By Dre as an example: big commercial success but poor sound).
Apple has contributed to accustome masses to compromise over sound quality all around the world, since several years, just for a cool design in that case. That was very true at the beginning of Ipods: really cool players, but bad players. Yes, Apple made strides, but still no match with Sony, Iriver or Cowon as I said. No FLAC nor Ogg on Ipods, so significant!!!!
That was the same effect with the success of the Mp3 system to which Apple contributed to. How many people listen to 128 kbps MP3 all around the world on their Ipod, or worse their Iphone, using those horrible white headphones?
Today explaining grandiloquently that it is important to care about how we listen to the music, and creating high priced weard objects for Apple and MP3 music, here is a big paradox. Especially from a musician like Jarre, who mixes and works on sound since several years. He contributes to what he's denouncing!!
Oversimplifying, put a poor sounding player on a very high quality system, you still keep a poor sound. Just put a 128kbps MP3 on an Aerosystem, you just keep shit. Worse, the quality of your audio system will accentuate the lack of quality of your player. Just put a DT880 headphone on your iphone, then on a Cowon J3, just listen to the difference.
Nonsense.
Jarre is lying: signing exclusive rights with Apple, that IS only business. Jarre Aerosystems could have been compatible with all brands. Universal products, able to sound with all brands of players, which could have been bad, normal or good. That would make sense. Or creating new headphones lines.
Somtimes I'm a little tired with his high-sounding phrases: "people don't care any more about how listening to music, I'm going to change that, bla-bla..." Pretending to be the new upholder of the law, and signing exclusivity with Apple sound products which putted sound quality to the background during several years but made success all around the world. Swearing overall it's not business, pff....
Sorry for the fans, and I'm a big one, but.... Isn't it business?
I'm a big fan of Apple. I work on a Mac, own an Iphone... But if I want high sound quality, I'll never listen to music on their products. Just because I do care about how listening to music.
