On Jan 1, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
A high-bit-rate MP3 is just fine. No need to torture ourselves to reach
some imaginary standard of purity. If you need a machine to detect
something you can not hear it is really pointless. Music is intended
for
the enjoyment of humans, not to please machines.
On a good music playback system I'll prefer to listen to the original
CD of a particular album as opposed to listening to an mp3 copy any
time.
And it is not just an issue with the quality of the sound, it also
involves the stereo imaging as well. The loss of spatial depth and
breadth is perhaps more noticeable to me than sound quality alone. As
I have said before, listening through earbuds is no big deal in this
vein because the sound is going to be relatively poor anyway no matter
what the source.
Steve
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