stinkingpig Wrote: > eq72521 wrote: > > Aaron Zinck Wrote: > > > >>>People value quality, and the technology > >> > >>to provide consumers with higher and higher sound-quality only > >>continues to > >>improve. There is still plenty of economic incentive to provide high > >>sound-quality. > > > > > > Unfortunately, my experience causes me to disagree with this. I have > a > > number of friends that are really into music, but somehow are unable > to > > hear anything wrong with 64kbps WMA. Yes, 64. They burn me CDs of > > stuff to listen to that has been ripped and burned with WMP, and I > have > > to just throw them away. I cringe when I go to their houses or ride > in > .... > > To be fair, this one may not be a case of the evil corporations gulling > > the impressionable consumer... a lot of us have blown our hearing out > with years of live music, headphones, &c. Spend a few evenings pogo-ing > > in front of a stack of amps turned up so loud that you have trouble > breathing through the sympathetic vibration and 64 kbps WMA will > probably sound good to you too :) > > -- > Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... > "If this is Paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower." -- The Talking Heads
Agreed. Actually, shortly after posting yesterday I thought about this and meant to follow-up post and rescind the malignance I was implicitely attributing to the industry. If anything, there is an implicit malignance in the system as a whole, of which we are all a part. "We are all a part of the malaise", as Bono once said. Although I know better now, I have certainly made my share of bad encodings. Hopefully my current round of CD ripping will be my last. I also unfortunately have to agree about hearing issues. Thinking back, it seems like I took fairly good care of my ears. I can count on both hands the number of concerts to which I've been; for most of the loud shows, I wore earplugs (Loreena McKennitt, Chicago Theater '98 is an example of not loud enough to warrant protection). I don't use headphones much. My working environment (computers) is certainly not amongst the loudest. Despite all this, I have of late noticed an increasingly bad case of permanant tinnitus, about which I am not happy at all. I fear for my future ability to enjoy music. Even with the constant ringing though, I cringe at the sound of WMA; I must have it pretty good. -- eq72521 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
