Re: encoding older music

2011-10-01 Thread Dave Scrimenti
Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 1:56 AM Subject: RE: encoding older music Dave I use a NAD amplifier with a good pair of british speakers and an older Emagic USB sound card which was when it came out supposed to be very high quality. So you will understand why I

RE: encoding older music

2011-10-01 Thread Steve Jacobson
Subject: Re: encoding older music Once music started being recorded on tape, (1950 and later), the quality is sufficiently good that you might not want to compromise. Prior to that, you can get away with it more. On the other hand, do you want to risk introducing even more degradation to something that's

Re: encoding older music

2011-10-01 Thread Dave Scrimenti
pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 2:02 PM Subject: RE: encoding older music Keep in mind that you don't know the history of anything you get free from the web. For example, if you find a site with higher bit rates, you don't know if there wasn't a point where it existed

encoding older music

2011-09-30 Thread André van Deventer
Hi folks! I again dare to open the can of worms which is the encoding of music which is downloaded from the internet. But today I have a different slant. For reasonably new stuff I do not believe that you can compromise especially when it comes to music with large orchestras. 320 mp3

Re: encoding older music

2011-09-30 Thread Dave Scrimenti
Message - From: André van Deventer andred...@webafrica.org.za To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 11:55 AM Subject: encoding older music Hi folks! I again dare to open the can of worms which is the encoding of music which is downloaded from

Re: encoding older music

2011-09-30 Thread Byron Stephens
-audio.org Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 1:07 PM Subject: Re: encoding older music Once music started being recorded on tape, (1950 and later), the quality is sufficiently good that you might not want to compromise. Prior to that, you can get away with it more. On the other hand, do you want

Re: encoding older music

2011-09-30 Thread Dave Scrimenti
bstephens122...@shaw.ca To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 5:09 PM Subject: Re: encoding older music You can get away also with lower bitrates with metal, provided it's 192 kbps. For older music from the 60's and back, the technology of the time wasn't

RE: encoding older music

2011-09-30 Thread André van Deventer
hear the difference in sound quality between different encodings. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dave Scrimenti Sent: 30 September 2011 10:08 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: encoding older music Once