th00ht;274197 Wrote: > Not interested in flaming in the first place I agree with anything you > say. > > What I meant is that we have to see things i perspective here. > > 1) If on a tube listing on an mp3 player with rather ok headphones I > believe I would not hear the difference between 128Kbps or 320kps or > lossless. > > 2) It the sound technician had a bad day during mastering process there > is already a loss. Even on a good day there is a loss. In fact it is > easy to spot the difference between a live performance and any > recording played on any equipment. (I hope we can at least agree on > that). Therefor, I alledge that there is already so much > psychoaccoustic tamperig going on what cannot be influenced I'd state > that nowedays' compression has a very little influence on the whole > chain. > Having said that, why save the extra bytes? Go for the lossless, as > moris minor was stating.
Thank you, I'm glad you didn't take my post as flaming or baiting since I really can't stand it when threads turn into a simple "You did too"/"I did not" type of posts. Moving forward, I completely agree with part 1 which is similar to the concept of trying to convince someone who listens to their music via el-cheapo computer speakers that flac files sound better than low bit rate mp3 files (I feel that the difference between high bit rate mp3 files and flac files is a good deal more subtle and therefore harder to hear) 'cause they ain't gonna hear it. On part 2 I agree with part of it, in that we have no control over what goes on at the recording and master level (other than our ability to vote with our wallets) but that doesn't mean that we should just throw our hands up and say "What the heck." Then all the well recorded material will not sound as good as it should or could when played back on our "Oh what the heck" audio system. So I disagree with your conclusion and hold firmly to the belief that I should try and keep the source end of the chain as simple and clean as possible and, more importantly, as true to the original recording as possible, regardless of how poorly done that recording may have been. I wrote "source end" to mean, in the case of hard drive based music playback systems, the files stored on one's drive. Corrections, be they digital or analog, can always be applied later in the playback chain, as one sees fit. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43910 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
