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From:
Irene McC
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Date:
Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:22:08 +0200
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[idm] Sound quality
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quoted 1 line Mp3 quality sucks anyway.> Mp3 quality sucks anyway.
What do you base this on? Your personal opinion? Your 'golden ears'? What sort of playback facilities do you employ? Do you only listen to vinyl? If you do, I understand your reluctance to embrace MP3's. But if you are used to CD's, which are purely a digital format anyway, then MP3's are not that far removed in sound quality. (Most of the music we are discussing here is digitally manipulated to start with.) In blind testing using audiophile-type snobs, they were *unable* to tell apart the original source recording from an MP3 encoded @128kbps or higher. Sure, it depends on codecs, algorhythms and other nice words, but at the end of the day if there is a happy confluence of all the relevant bits of technology, the result should be sweet and pleasing. Try again please before forming opinions. I * np : Herbie Hancock - Dis is Da Drum (try this for funky beatz) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org