hypersensitivity and acute audible discernment are two completely different things.
but if you're just listening in your car or on your computer... then yes, you may not notice a
critical difference.
if you listen on your home stereo setup (like say, a pair of Acoustat 2+2s with a Sunfire True MKII
sub powered with a pair of Silver 7t amps) then you'll hear a huge difference. yes, mp3 sucks when
compared to some more current lossy audio compression methods but we're stuck with it so you might
as well use LAME to get everything you can out of it.
and the EAC recommendation isn't because it has the ability to correct for read/write offset of cd
burners (allowing you to make a truly exact copy), but because of it's ability to *correctly* read
even horribly scratched CDs with minimal error.
I once broke my only CD of a live performance I recorded IN HALF ! the original copy was lost due
to a hard drive failure so i meticulously connected the two halves and let EAC loose on it. 38 HRS
( ! ! ! ) of ripping later, the resulting burned cd had perhaps only a dozen audible pops over the
course of the entire CD. that is some relentlessly accurate ripping !
i only use MP3 for my iPod (can't hold enough straight WAV rips on my 5GB for my convenience)... and
FLAC for archival. but any audiophile who's done direct comparison between 16/44 CDDA and SACD will
tell you that ignorance is certainly not bliss.
enjoy
-=dave
ps- and for the masses... in EAC : "Tools:Copy CD..." yeah, that's really tough :P
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron D Meyers" <adm226@nyu.edu>
To: "Brandon" <djresonance@yahoo.com>
Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] Ripping question
quoted 1 line Difference schmifference. I guess I live happily in my ignorant world where 192 kbs mp3s r
> Difference schmifference. I guess I live happily in my ignorant world where 192 kbs mp3s ripped
in MusicMatch sound just as good as the CDs they come from. I want to run some pepsi/coke taste
test shit on you audiophiles who can hear all those imperfections and mp3 artifacts. Are you all
hypersensitive to all kinds of sound or just mp3?
quoted 114 lines -Aaron
>
> -Aaron
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brandon <djresonance@yahoo.com>
> Date: Friday, April 4, 2003 1:26 pm
> Subject: Re: [idm] Ripping question
>
> > Perhaps, but for someone who doesn't want to have to
> > read through long pages of instructions just to get
> > things setup, cdex is the way to go. I've ripped a
> > ton of cds with cdex and listening to them at 192kbs
> > in my car stereo, I can't tell the difference between
> > the cd and the mp3 90% of the time.
> >
> >
> > --- SE/30 <grindingbassline@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > cdex isn't nearly as powerful as EAC and nowhere
> > > near as high a quality encoding out of the box as
> > > LAME
> > >
> > > here's all the info for cd ripping on the PC you'll
> > > need to know:
> > >
> > > http://mp3.radified.com
> > >
> > > for Linux gui, GRip:
> > >
> > > http://www.nostatic.org/grip/
> > >
> > > -=dave
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Brandon" <djresonance@yahoo.com>
> > > To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:36 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [idm] Ripping question
> > >
> > >
> > > > cdex.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.cdex.n3.net/
> > > >
> > > > --- Sean Horton <sean_horton@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Can anyone out there recommend a good ripping
> > > > > program (WAV to MP3) for PC?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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