FredFredrickson;520513 Wrote: > I must be a noob, but 192 kbps WMA sounds identical to any FLAC I've > listened to...
If one is a musician or listens to large amounts of Jazz and Classical (I fall into both), 192 is very lacking. Every time the Forum discusses 192 Kbps anything, it reminds me of the movie Amadeus. Emperor: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect. Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty? Notes, persistence, upper and lower frequencies are removed to make the files smaller (there is no other way then removing them to do compression at this level) so the music is directly affected, IE it is forever changed and no longer the original. Which is why a 192 file can not be changed back into a copy of the original. If one buys into the con that it is OK because one can't really hear the difference, then the brain will not bother to hear or listen for the difference. The MP3 codecs were not created because people just would never hear the difference, they were created to provide a means to put some songs on small portable devices and on computers without taking up all the drive space. And as the music goes, I want the original with all its penned/recorded notes and persistence the original piece intended. Device and hard drive space are not really an issue anymore, so until something better comes along, FLAC is truly the way to rip and listen to for playback. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Second Boom Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75622 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
