[Sorry, but I've had to disable the audio links in this post.]

[This is a long, long article which my brother wrote for the site. It's a fascinating and really slightly scary piece of writing and I seriously recommend you make the time to read the whole thing. He explains very neatly how the quality of recorded music is taking a massive nosedive, and how really high-definition may be lost to us forever quite soon.

This is something I am genuinely proud to have on this site. After all the fanny jokes and random bollocks, it's nice to publish something with genuine depth of knowledge and thought, despite the depressing inevitability that it took someone else to write it. Little bastard. He's handsomer than me too, the little fucker.

The other thing is that he illustrates his points with mp3s and I am not sure if the quality of the songs I provide will make his argument properly, but click on the pictures and you'll get the point. I know it doesn't fit the narrow column width format too well, but there's not a lot I can do about that, I don't think.]

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