[jlarcombe]

the idea is that if it sounds good on the 'wildly different setup' (i.e. posh speakers in controlled environment) then it will also sound good on cheap earbuds... but not the other way round.

to me the whole 'mastering AI' stuff misses at least some of the point of what mastering really is, but i suppose it'll be useful for people doing stuff on their own who wouldn't pay a proper mastering engineer anyway.

[viraptor]

Sometimes true... Sometimes you get Christopher Nolan, with his own quote:

> Because you can make a film that looks like anything, you can shoot on your iPhone, no one’s going to complain. But if you mix the sound a certain way, or if you use certain sub-frequencies, people get up in arms.

[jlarcombe]

well yeah, "good" meaning "as the artist intended"... that's the other thing with this AI stuff, there is no objective definition of "good sounding record" unless you just want everything to sound like Steely Dan or whatever...