On Mar 12, 2017 07:45, "Tom Ivar Helbekkmo" <t...@hamartun.priv.no> wrote:
Johnny Billquist <b...@update.uu.se> writes: >> ...and *man*, I'd forgotten how much 16-bit audio sucks. :) > > I guess that means you detest CDs like nothing else. :-) Yup. Compared, side-by-side, to a good vinyl recording, a CD sucks. (Reply all, this time) For sake of discussion, I'll just leave this here: https://wiki.xiph.org/ Videos/A_Digital_Media_Primer_For_Geeks (note there are references to two talks. I think the most interesting one is the second). Additional: YouTube link to second talk - https://youtu.be/cIQ9IXSUzuM -bch But you've got a point. Falling back to OSS gives horrible sound quality from (lossless) rips of CDs, which are, as you say, 16 bit to begin with. So what's the big difference from Pulse, then? -tih -- Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance of Lisp. Lisp is the most important idea in computer science. --Alan Kay
