m1abrams;279579 Wrote: 
>  However the one thing you said he said was that mp3 was inferior and
> that he never stated.

Did you read the article??

John Atkinson Wrote: 
> 
> The reason is simple: Although they are universally described in the
> mainstream press as being of "CD quality," MP3s and their
> lossy-compressed ilk *do not offer sufficient audio quality* for
> serious music listening.
> ...
> But lossy files achieve their conveniently small size by *discarding
> too much of the music to be worth considering*.
> ...
> Yes, this kind of signal is very much a worst case, but this result is
> *-not- "CD quality."*
> ...
> Both MP3 and AAC introduce fairly large changes in the measured
> spectra, even at the highest rate of 320kbps. There seems little point
> in spending large sums of money on superbly specified audio equipment
> if you are going to play *sonically compromised*, lossy-compressed
> music on it.
> 
(my bold).

And by the way:
JA Wrote: 
> 
> The degree of this degradation depends on the data rate. Less bits
> always equals less music.

This is false, period.  He really doesn't know what he's talking about.


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