A real sore point with me. It is amazing to me
that we have advanced to the amazing picture quality
of HDTV, yet we've regressed with sound. The general
public accepts such low quality standards for music
listening. Lossy internet downloads don't help. The
public doesn't know what is possible with sound. Then
again, the public accepts this quality, as long as it
is cheap and doesn't take very long to download.
Quantity, not quality, is the norm. Fill up hard
drives with thousands of music files compressed to the
max, then sell off the CDs. Minimalize.
On a related note, our local pawn shop people have
often seen customers rush back in their stores,
scared, to buy back their CDs & records. Of course,
their computers crashed, and they created no backup
music files.
I'm done. I feel better now.
-Bruce D.
#1221
--- tomdcour <
tomdcour@amnh.org> wrote:
> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com,
> "ceccles_ca" <ecclesreinson@...> wrote:
> >Yes, I've been noticing the difference when making
> MP3 files from AIFF. I've been sending
> music over the internet and having to really squash
> the files and as an experiment I did
> the compression in increments, checking the audio
> quality each time. I first noticed the
> cymbals breaking down with other high frequencies
> following.
> > --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, fdoddy@
> wrote:
> >
> > > Mp3 really is awful though, even the higher bit
> rates
> >
> > > fritz
> >
> > My son has been telling me that 192 kbps MP3's
> give him full CD
> > quality sound. We did some comparisons on the
> weekend. He was
> > surprised when he clearly heard the difference
> every time. We also
> > compared a 15 ips tape of a CD with MP3. He had
> to agree that my
> > "antique" tape recorder delivers much higher
> quality audio than MP3.
> >
> > I wouldn't say MP3 is awful. 8 tracks and Walkman
> cassettes were
> > awful. MP3's provide very good audio quality by
> comparison. Good
> > but not HIFI.
> >
>
>
>
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