quoted 8 lines Mp3 quality sucks anyway.
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> > Mp3 quality sucks anyway.
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>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.
With all due respect to you, Irene, I think you're missing the point. mp3
may or may not have the potential to sound really great. But in my
experience, the stuff I've pulled from the internet sounds atrocious, almost
without exception. Almost.
Why do you think the adverts for services like e-music or whoever else taut
"near CD quality" and not specifically "CD quality?" Because they know it's
not.
I've traded cds with others on this list and I can recognize fairly
immediately what was pulled from the internet and what came from and
original cd or record. That might be because I am a musician and an audio
engineer and therefore have some really tuned in ears.
At the same time, if you want to hear a download that sounds totally bloody
phenomenal, go to www.mutek.ca and check out Pole's show. Wonderful highs,
wonderful lows. Stylistically I don't really care too much for his stuff,
but it sounded so good in terms of the mix and overall production that I
save a copy for myself. In stereo no less, which unfortunately seems like a
rarity on the internet.
I'm not clued in at all with codecs and modems and compression techniques,
all I know is what I've heard.
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