Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers

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Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 9, 2012 @08:11AM from the projecting-himself dept.

First time accepted submitter CIStud writes "Famed 'Dark Side of the Moon' engineer Alan Parsons, who also worked on the Beatles 'Abbey Road,' says audiophiles spend too much money on equipment and ignore room acoustics. He also is surprised the music industry has not addressed the artists' rights violations taking place on YouTube, wonders why surround-sound mixes for albums never took off, and calls the Jonas Brothers 'garbage' all in one interview."

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Re:Scathing, Absolutely Scathing by elrous0 · 2012-02-09 08:14 · Score: 4, Funny

And another thing, get off his lawn!!!

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Audiophiles by sexconker · 2012-02-09 08:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Audiophiles are pretty much the dumbest group of people ever.
No, you can't hear a difference between this $5000 speaker and this $150 speaker.
No, these cables don't sound "warm".
1. Re:Audiophiles by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-09 08:21 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  ++ This. Too dumb to become a real geek? Then become an audiophile. All of the angry nerd posturing with none of that meddlesome knowledge.
2. Re:Audiophiles by SJHillman · 2012-02-09 08:22 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I've found that cheaper cables taste better, especially with a little ketchup.
3. Re:Audiophiles by 0123456 · 2012-02-09 08:46 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Our rabbit prefers the taste of gold-plated cables to plain old copper.
Re:Scathing, Absolutely Scathing by tom17 · 2012-02-09 08:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Abuse? Oh sorry, this is arguments. Abuse is down the hall.
No it isn't.
Re:"Pink Floyd engineer"? by virgnarus · 2012-02-09 08:21 · Score: 5, Funny

I know him most for a giant death ray entitled with his name.
then again, there's Beats by Dr Dre by sqldr · 2012-02-09 08:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Sorry Dr Dre, but having you design speakers is like having an acoustics geek make a hip-hop record.

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Re:Scathing, Absolutely Scathing by jamstar7 · 2012-02-09 08:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Hey, us Trekkies have always been interested in keeping up with the Cardassians. Er, wait...

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Re:Scathing, Absolutely Scathing by Beriaru · 2012-02-09 09:02 · Score: 4, Funny

I simply don't understand why it's slashdotted if nobody RTFA.
Re:Scathing, Absolutely Scathing by TeknoHog · 2012-02-09 10:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Surely you mean the Calrissians?

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Re:Noisy-environment mode by yurtinus · 2012-02-09 10:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Notice how most cars have a button to turn on and off "loudness?" That's essentially the way car stereos do it. But, if it's already compressed, you can make it more compressed, AND MORE LOUDERER!!!

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Re:"Pink Floyd engineer"? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-09 10:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Ask 100 Slashdotters if they can figure out what the fuck you're trying to say in your posts.
Re:"Pink Floyd engineer"? by dna_(c)(tm)(r) · 2012-02-09 10:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Sorry, I wasn't clear in my narrative.
Me: Did you read that article about Alan Parsons?
Average music listener: Alan who?
Me; Alan Parsons. He was the recording engineer for "Dark Side Of The Moon".
Average music listener: ???
Me: You know, Pink Floyd?
Average music listener: Ah Pink, but she's sooo 2005 - and who is Floyd?.
There, fixed that for you.