ralphpnj;410076 Wrote: > Darren, > > You make some very good points but I think that from the audiophile > perspective you forgot one really important point: while I love > listening to last.fm and some radio stations via SqueezeNetwork I just > can't tolerate the insanely low bit rate and resulting poor sound > quality for any length of time. Even 128kps, which one rarely gets via > SqueezeNetwork, is nowhere near the sound quality I get by streaming my > own flac files. But then the mainstream has been sold on the lie that > "digital is digital", as is the case with satellite radio - CD quality > my ass. You're right. But streaming quality will have less and less technological constraints as time goes on (I choose my words carefully). Even now, as I understand it, last.fm streams MP3 at 256 VBR. Darren
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