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Trent Reznor of NIN is an audiophile

post #1 of 33
9/11/09 at 3:01am
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Everyone's obsessed with the highest possible resolution for their TV's...yet everyone still walks around with those terrible-quality white ipod "earbuds"
- NIN rocker Trent Reznor on consumers' appalling tolerance for low-quality audio




How true.

i see people talkin how big LCD they bought...yet they power them with in-built speakers or cheap for-sale Home theatres.

and they listen to music most of their lives at 128 kbps mp3 with cheap earbuds blasted until they are cracking.



and great to know musicians are encouraging hi-fi audio at consumer level.
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post #2 of 33
9/11/09 at 3:08am
yeah, that would have to be a no-brainer. all of his albums are fun to listen to. there is so much going on in the songs.

definitely cool to hear him make that comment too. and Trent Reznor or not, he has a point. people either just don't care or don't know any better...or don't care, haha.

he's an Apple fan as well, so that makes what he said even more biting


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post #3 of 33
9/11/09 at 3:53am
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wow..thats trent's home studio? .....looks like underground mad scientist lab where they make nukes.
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post #4 of 33
9/11/09 at 4:58am
Yeah, but he'll never be as cool as Fabio.

I truly appreciate his release of The Downward Spiral on SACD, but I'd pay copious amounts of money for Pretty Hate Machine on SACD. The album truly deserves the treatment.
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post #5 of 33
9/11/09 at 5:57am
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Yeah, but he'll never be as cool as Fabio.

I truly appreciate his release of The Downward Spiral on SACD, but I'd pay copious amounts of money for Pretty Hate Machine on SACD. The album truly deserves the treatment.
That would be awesome, but I don't know if it will happen. Last I heard, he lost the rights to the album or some nonsense when TVT went under. And then some other company or label won the rights and re-released the CD as a re-mastered version.

I'm SO lucky to have a sealed original pressing of the Pretty Hate Machine vinyl. I don't have a lot of things that I collect, but that is definitely my pride and joy. And I bought it long before prices went through the roof.
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post #6 of 33
9/11/09 at 6:00am
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Originally Posted by Nocturnal310 View Post
wow..thats trent's home studio? .....looks like underground mad scientist lab where they make nukes.
haha, you're not too far off. it's an old funeral home in New Orleans. that would creep me out beyond belief.

Trent Reznor's Funeral Home Studio at Music Gear Review
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post #7 of 33
9/11/09 at 6:16am
I love that man.

That studio looks amazing. A shame it was most likely destroyed in Katrina.
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post #8 of 33
9/11/09 at 6:47am
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I love that man.

That studio looks amazing. A shame it was most likely destroyed in Katrina.
it was fine, but it's not a studio anymore.
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post #9 of 33
9/11/09 at 8:20am
You don't need to be an audiophile to know that ipod headphones suck
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post #10 of 33
9/11/09 at 11:40am
As Lights in the Sky/Corona Radiata/The Four of Us Are Dying are among my favourite "test" tracks that I use to show off my HD650s... this makes total sense.
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post #11 of 33
9/11/09 at 11:50am
well to be fair to trent's statement about TVs they obsess over 1080p and bigger screens but then they don't calibrate their damn TV and leave it in super bright boosted contrast factory settings... then most of them only watch SD content
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post #12 of 33
9/11/09 at 1:24pm
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well to be fair to trent's statement about TVs they obsess over 1080p and bigger screens but then they don't calibrate their damn TV and leave it in super bright boosted contrast factory settings... then most of them only watch SD content
ding! ding! ding! winnar!
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post #13 of 33
9/11/09 at 2:06pm
I'm not surprised Trent knows a thing or two about audio. But to be honest, there has to be more artist involvement to give awareness on lossless music and better headphones and IEM's and speakers.

Why arent manufacturers signing up artists for advertising their HPs? I can totally see a lot of ppl buying a Sennheiser HD whatever if Trent came and said these are my favourite headphones and I wont listen to anything else.
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post #14 of 33
9/11/09 at 2:13pm
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Originally Posted by necropimp View Post
well to be fair to trent's statement about TVs they obsess over 1080p and bigger screens but then they don't calibrate their damn TV and leave it in super bright boosted contrast factory settings... then most of them only watch SD content
Yup! Not to mention "enhanced" contrast. I had a little LCD HDTV (sadly stolen) and first thing I did was turn off all the "enhancements" and set the brightness more appropriate to where I was using it. Also, making sure my Xbox 360 was actually outputting at 720p and the correct 16:9 aspect ratio...

That said, we tech nerds are in the minority. I used to work at a video rental place (starts with a "B") just as VHS was phasing out for good. Most customers' who asked me what the difference between Pan & Scan and Letterbox (new terms for the emerging DVD market as VHS was overwhelmingly Pan & Scan) were started falling asleep as I attempted to explain what such esoteric terms as "aspect ratio" and "cropping" meant. Eventually, like all retail workers, I died a bit inside and gave up. The answer I settled on? "Letterbox means those black bars at the top and bottom." At least even the most troglodytic customer could understand that.

Luckily nobody ever asked me what the difference between Dolby Pro Logic and Dolby Digital was.
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post #15 of 33
9/11/09 at 2:43pm
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i think i should take up job as marketing manager for some audio equipment companies.


there is so much potential in marketing...plus my business management degree mite help

also...meeting hot female singers wud be an added bonus.
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