Goodsounds;329437 Wrote: > Hi Radish, > > Yes, a lower quality lossy rip will sound worse. A higher quality > lossy rip will sound less worse. A non-lossy rip will still not sound > great because of the inherent lossy nature of CD sound. Artists have > been complaining about CDs since they came out - I did a quick search, > and found a recent quote from a recording producer calling CD sound "a > Xerox of a Polaroid of a photograph of a painting". Google those words, > you'll find the interview. > > The record industry squashed the DAT format for consumers sometime ago, > maybe it was 15 years or so, out of fear that that would put "master" > quality sound out on the street. But the recording industry was just > fine with CDs, because it is far from master quality. The low sampling > rate, which is the problem, was chosen to allow enough capacity for > hour long albums, +/-, on the form factor chosen. Therein lies the > compromise, the sampling rate is really too low to capture the full > spectrum of the sound, and that is why CDs are lossy. Most people don't > know or hear the difference.
O thats probably correct in theory but how many recordings actually sounds that good that the CD format is an bottle neck ? I have an DVD-A player and approx >100 dvda's some of them do sound spectacular, the ones that are actually recorded in 24bit with modern equipment. The remastered records from old masters is rarely special, if they are I have niggling suspicion that it is because of a better master not the hi-rez format. I think the death of hi-rez formats is due to fact that most recordings is crap (relatively speaking) and wont merit from it. Btw there are some spectacular remasters done in 5.1 from original source mtrl (and many bad ones), correct use of surround channels and center actually makes sense. -- Mnyb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51108 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
