Topic Proposal
Music Industry will upgrade to Surround Sound Soon
Technology is rejuvenating the music industry and with continuing research and format development such as surround sound, I believe sales will continue to increase. The development of surround sound through the DVD format is the future for success in the music industry. In layman's terms, instead of hearing music through two speakers which is stereo, surround sound utilizes five or seven speakers and reproduces the music to be heard through all speakers. This is done by remixing the original source tape. Hence the term 5.1 surround sound and 7.1 surround sound. Compared to stereo, surround sound is much clearer and separates the different aspects of music. The highs which are considered the treble are usually allocated to your rear speakers. The front speakers and your middle channel usually handle the voice of the music and the Sub-Woofer re-creates the base and the lows. This is only one format within music reproduction and due to the fact that it has a great reproduction of sound I believe that most of your older music and especially classic rock will begin to remaster in a surround sound format to increase record sales.
What I propose to do with this topic is to give the reader better insight on the difference between analog and digital. Also, to educate them on the different formats and music players that is available in the market. Most importantly, I want to study the data to see if record sales have increased since 1982, when digital music was available and to compare the sales of records and CDs since digital came to the music market. Another question that readers might have, especially with 35 and older age group is if digital sound is better than analog. I'll need scientific evidence and listener preference to answer that question. Still, even today a lot hard-core music listeners will not give up their vinyl albums and replace them with CDs. Maybe I'll be able to persuade them through examples and facts.
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3 comments:
That sounds like quite an investigation. Your project sounds somewhat difficult, but is very interesting. Like everything music is changing to nothing but digital. Hopefully you can persuade others to listening to cd's simply by the fact that analogous material will degrade while the digital files are there forever.
I agree that this topic looks interesting. Depending on the amount of information you find, you may want to concentrate on the analog vs. digital or surround sound, not both. If you can integrate the two easily it should be ok.
anyone that has listened to the new hi-def formats in surround sound, such as DVD-audio or SACD, would be hard pressed to say the LP's are better. LP's, even if better because they are analogue, only have 2 tracks. Now, what I REALLY want to know is - when is surround sound going to catch on?
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