hifisteve Wrote: > Now I know that this might sound like a silly question, and for non-hifi > nuts and computer experts it probably is, but this is addressed to > people like me - very fussy about my music and not totally convinced > that computers don't involve witchcraft... > > If storage space were not an issue, would people actually sooner store > their music totally uncompressed rather than use a 'lossless' codec? > > I know people are going to say that lossless preserves all the data > etc. but let me ask you this: > > If someone invented a 'lossless' way of making food 'smaller' for > storage by removing the water, would you rather eat an apparantly > perfectly reconstituted or untouched version? I mean water is just > water right? If you put it back where it came from is as good as > before isn't it?... > > I'm sure this is more of a psychological question but then we live in > the world of 'vibration cones', 'green pen on CD edges' and 'deep > freeze your CDs for better sound'
A trollig effort, or some kind of bad joke? Do you also believe your unzipped programs are not as good as the originals stored somewhere at the software firm's head office? -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21700 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
