Re: [Pen-l] Henwood on the radio

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
On May 3, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:

> yes.

Doyle;
"Fidelity' came in during the fifties with 78's (vinyl records).   
Purist treasure 78's for their natural sound.  What one picks up on   
the web is mp3 files usually.  Partly because other formats that are  
less lossy take up a lot of space on servers.

That said, do you really care about fidelity of the broadcast?  I  
doubt it personally.  Audiophiles care, but given what is known about  
hearing what is really being heard?  Japan demands high quality  
recordings and gets that.  In the U.S. the recording industry puts out  
inferior product compared to more discerning tastes, but that to my  
mind is not what is at stake in hearing.

Much of this is palaver about so called 'professional' standards.   
Which are in the U.S. commercially defined rather than socially  
defined.  For example radio could be made to be captioned for the deaf  
audience, but is not.  That sort of debate about 'hearing' sound is  
much more profound than is fidelity in 'reproduction'.  Socially  
defined sound, is not about costly audio reproduction consumer goods.   
Not about monitors in the mass media, but the fidelity of society to  
the goals of equality and justice in providing access to knowledge.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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