lol. "Try again please before forming opinions." Man, this list never
ceases to amaze me. The horror, the horror.....
rw
----- Original Message -----
From: "Irene McC" <substar@iafrica.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 9:22 AM
Subject: [idm] Sound quality
quoted 33 lines It was said previously:> It was said previously:
>
> > 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)
>
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