Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-15 Thread DJ DMT
that's the point ! no weird interference
(or even better : the right interference)
It's the same when you hold a mic close to the speaker
(you'll get a feedback loop)
Also that's the same with bootlegging from vinyl
I've seen a lot of speakers wobble with little to no bass in the track
(but there are many factors that could create that)

But if a track is mastered right (and played on a good setup and system) it
will let the solid kick or bass
be redirected back to the needle, creating a massive solid bass.

But you're also right about isolating your sl's
I have played on numerous 'spring' isolated tabel setups
and although I hate the unsteady sl's
I love the solid sound it produces.
(and raises the dynamics of a record and creating a major different than
played from Dat or live :-)

Anybody heard those jimmy jams breaks ?? that's rock solid !
finest mastering I've heard ever !

DMT

n.p. petestrumentals
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 this would most likely, in effect, damp the resonances.  in other words,
 making sure the table is very heavy would most likely damp a lot of the
 vibrations (although the bricks most likely would transmit a lot of it).

 i say isolate the table as well as possible.  while a trick like that
might
 be cool nothing is worse than having a needle jump.

 Mike

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 Subject: Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.
 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:12:46 +0200
 
 I can make a nice drawing of this but it's actually true
 I've tried certain setups where it came clear to me that
 resonace injected from the speakers react different to the needle through
 wood, metal  or bricks.
 just make shure that the table you place you're 1200's on is heavy with
 lot's and lots of bricks
 
 But maybe you can tell me something about th'm different frequenties the
 quartz resonates to ?
 
 dmt
 
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Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are. your answers

2001-04-14 Thread Joel Reitzloff
actually, the machines producing your favorite sounds are producing AT
LEAST, and DONT ARGUE 24bit sound, sometimes even at 48000 or higher khz.
when this is mixed down professionally and PRESSED (NOT BURNED, DIGITALLY)
to vinyl, that sound is kept, because of it's format. speakers are analog,
and they must put out analog sound. therefor, when your CD plays, the data
is converted by the speaker so it can play. when you burn higher quality
music to a cd, the quality is automatically dithered to 16bit, sometimes
with adverse effects. the vinyl produces a sound for the speakers, that
digital can only emulate, and can for the most part only reach 16bit
quality. say you like the quality of the cleanest CD you've ever heard, now
imagine TWICE that quality! kinda hard.. huh maybe that's why people tend to
go crazy to the vinyl
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Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.


 I think alot of the quality of the audio goes out the window after
digital
 quantizantion.

 Something I don't understand here - so much music is made with samplers
and
 other digital devices, so presumably the sound coming out is quantised to
 16-bit/44.1KHz by definition anyway - how can writing that quantised sound
 onto vinyl suddenly give it a better dynamic range / quality ?

 I suspect there's a bit of retro-fetishism going on here (not that there's
 anything wrong with that - just that vinyl rules for reasons other than
 sound quality).

 Debates r.e. the quality of mp3 files are mainly irrelevant at present
since
 the primary point of mp3 files is swapping, i.e. you take what you can get
 in terms of bitrate. Sure, higher bitrates sound better, but most extant
 files are lower bitrate. Since it's a lossy compression system there will
 always be a difference, and the louder the P.A. the more audible that
 difference will be. Personally I'm not ready to make the switch yet,
though
 I do play with WAVs off a puter.

:-) (-:
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Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are. your answers

2001-04-14 Thread eric hamilton
don't argue?

--- Joel Reitzloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 actually, the machines producing your favorite sounds are producing
 AT
 LEAST, and DONT ARGUE 24bit sound, sometimes even at 48000 or higher
 khz.

First, CD Quality is 16 bit, 44.1khz.  48khz is NOT enough of a
difference that you would be able to hear it (I'd give you the math
proof, but it's a bit geeky and only the people that already know it
would understand it anyway.. has to do with the relationship of the
sampling frequncy to the frequencies percieved, and the shrinking
perceptable detail range of higher frequencies)... As a matter of fact,
44.1khz is about twice what the average person is able to percieve,
which is good enough to eliminate all perceptable aliasing
anamolies... in other words, it's already well out of audible range,
and the only reason it goes that high is to provide good detail and low
noise in high frequencies that vinyl cannot even produce.  If you tried
to cut a vinyl with the amount of high frequency energy that a CD can
reproduce, nobody could track it anyway.. you'd just have the record
burn sound on a brand-new record.

As far as perceptable audio quality goes, the dynamic range (the amount
of audio content that can be percieved as far as amplitude is
concerned) has far more to do with perceptable quality in the small
differences we're talking about here.  Every time you add a bit do the
bit-depth, you DOUBLE the dynamic range available, which leaves much
more room for detail across all frequencies.  Going from 16 bit to 24
bit may not sound like a big deal, but it's a lot more than you think..
to put it in perspective, if you had a detail scale that was linear the
difference between 16 bit and 24 bit would be more like the difference
between 16  and 4096 on the scale as far as the raw amount of
information that can be reproduced.  On the other hand, like the
sampling frequencies, you probably COULD NOT hear the difference very
well unless the detail level was doubled, so it makes more sense to
relate it in smaller numbers.  I know that I personally can tell a huge
difference between 16 and 20 bit sounds (at high volumes and low signal
levels), but I cannot hear much difference between 20 and 24 bit -
until I've done mix-downs... it's important to mix and run any effects
convolutions at higher bit-depth because every time you mix two
signals, you lose HALF of the detail range.  That adds up quickly.

As for your don't argue comment - a LOT of producers are still using
samplers from several years ago that sampled and played back at 16
bit.. and MANY of us are still using gear from the early 80's (even
digital gear like my yamaha DX7 that's nowhere near 24 bit).  The old
analog gear never hits the digital domain until it goes through our A/D
converters and into our digital mixing environments - at this point,
it's usually at least 20 bit, and likely 24-32 bit conversion, and it
doesn't drop down to 16 bit again until the CD master is burned... at
which point, it's DITHERED to 16 bits, which is a process that
preserves more of the sound's detail than would be preserved if we just
smashed it into 16 bits and cut off the rest of the detail.

This detail loss I'm talking about is mostly perceptable in
high-frequency clarity (the types of frequencies that vinyl has never
been able to produce), and dynamic range.. I am fairly certain that the
dynamic range is more important to the fuller, warmer sound of analog
gear than anything else.. there's no question that I can tell a huge
difference between hearing an orchestra live and hearing an orchestra
on CD.  It sounds very flat on CD.. the sounds trail and fizzle and die
prematurely.. it looses a smootheness and cohesion that you would have
live.  I think that vinyl does a better job of preserving this effect,
but I can't tell you specifically how or why except maybe that digital
is more discreete - no matter what those bits are, they never effect
each other, whereas, on a vinyl cutting, the amplitude level of the
audio a few miliseconds ago is still having an effect on the current
level.. it causes a softening, or blurring effect, much like the effect
you would see if a photographer intentionally blurred a photograph a
little to make it softer and smoother.  You can hear this effect
yourself by listening to the difference between analog and digital
clipping... Digital clipping sounds very harsh, similar to static on a
television, only much more intense and solid.. there's NO smoothing
going on.  When you overdrive an analog input, clipping still occurs,
but the signal levels from one moment to the next (we're talking
miliseconds here) have more effect on each other, causing a warmer,
smoother, and softer sound that's actually desireable in many
circumstances.  It sounds more organic and natural.

 when this is mixed down professionally and PRESSED (NOT BURNED,
 DIGITALLY)
 to vinyl, that sound is kept, because of it's format.

Not exactly.  Vinyl cannot reproduce high 

Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-14 Thread Michael Kim


this would most likely, in effect, damp the resonances.  in other words, 
making sure the table is very heavy would most likely damp a lot of the 
vibrations (although the bricks most likely would transmit a lot of it).


i say isolate the table as well as possible.  while a trick like that might 
be cool nothing is worse than having a needle jump.


Mike


From: DJ DMT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 313 detroit 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:12:46 +0200

I can make a nice drawing of this but it's actually true
I've tried certain setups where it came clear to me that
resonace injected from the speakers react different to the needle through
wood, metal  or bricks.
just make shure that the table you place you're 1200's on is heavy with
lot's and lots of bricks

But maybe you can tell me something about th'm different frequenties the
quartz resonates to ?

dmt

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Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are. your answers

2001-04-14 Thread Michael Kim


uhh, no.  no, no, and no.

the 24-bit sound is NOT kept when pressed to vinyl, because the quality of 
sound is only as good as the weakest link, and that would be the quality of 
the vinyl press itself.


the speakers don't do any conversions.  the D/A converter in your 
electronics will do that (most D/A converters are in the cd player's 
circuits itself; if it has an analog output (RCA, XLR, 1/4, whatever) then 
you know the conversion already happened.


digital reproduction is 'nearly' perfect.  the level of distortion produced 
by quantization and filtering is so small it's not even funny.  worry more 
about speaker distortions.


what this has to do with 313 i don't know, but it had to be said.  :)

Mike


From: Joel Reitzloff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: --autopilot-- [EMAIL PROTECTED], 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are. your answers
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:23:38 -0400

actually, the machines producing your favorite sounds are producing AT
LEAST, and DONT ARGUE 24bit sound, sometimes even at 48000 or higher khz.
when this is mixed down professionally and PRESSED (NOT BURNED, DIGITALLY)
to vinyl, that sound is kept, because of it's format. speakers are analog,
and they must put out analog sound. therefor, when your CD plays, the data
is converted by the speaker so it can play. when you burn higher quality
music to a cd, the quality is automatically dithered to 16bit, sometimes
with adverse effects. the vinyl produces a sound for the speakers, that
digital can only emulate, and can for the most part only reach 16bit
quality. say you like the quality of the cleanest CD you've ever heard, now
imagine TWICE that quality! kinda hard.. huh maybe that's why people tend 
to

go crazy to the vinyl
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Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.


 I think alot of the quality of the audio goes out the window after
digital
 quantizantion.

 Something I don't understand here - so much music is made with samplers
and
 other digital devices, so presumably the sound coming out is quantised 
to
 16-bit/44.1KHz by definition anyway - how can writing that quantised 
sound

 onto vinyl suddenly give it a better dynamic range / quality ?

 I suspect there's a bit of retro-fetishism going on here (not that 
there's

 anything wrong with that - just that vinyl rules for reasons other than
 sound quality).

 Debates r.e. the quality of mp3 files are mainly irrelevant at present
since
 the primary point of mp3 files is swapping, i.e. you take what you can 
get

 in terms of bitrate. Sure, higher bitrates sound better, but most extant
 files are lower bitrate. Since it's a lossy compression system there 
will

 always be a difference, and the louder the P.A. the more audible that
 difference will be. Personally I'm not ready to make the switch yet,
though
 I do play with WAVs off a puter.

:-) (-:
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Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-13 Thread DJ DMT
I can make a nice drawing of this but it's actually true
I've tried certain setups where it came clear to me that
resonace injected from the speakers react different to the needle through
wood, metal  or bricks.
just make shure that the table you place you're 1200's on is heavy with
lot's and lots of bricks

But maybe you can tell me something about th'm different frequenties the
quartz resonates to ?

dmt

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Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-11 Thread --autopilot--
I think alot of the quality of the audio goes out the window after digital
quantizantion.

Something I don't understand here - so much music is made with samplers and
other digital devices, so presumably the sound coming out is quantised to
16-bit/44.1KHz by definition anyway - how can writing that quantised sound
onto vinyl suddenly give it a better dynamic range / quality ?

I suspect there's a bit of retro-fetishism going on here (not that there's
anything wrong with that - just that vinyl rules for reasons other than
sound quality).

Debates r.e. the quality of mp3 files are mainly irrelevant at present since
the primary point of mp3 files is swapping, i.e. you take what you can get
in terms of bitrate. Sure, higher bitrates sound better, but most extant
files are lower bitrate. Since it's a lossy compression system there will
always be a difference, and the louder the P.A. the more audible that
difference will be. Personally I'm not ready to make the switch yet, though
I do play with WAVs off a puter.

   :-) (-:
   Ash
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RE: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-11 Thread Steven Taylor
 Debates r.e. the quality of mp3 files are mainly irrelevant 
 at present since
 the primary point of mp3 files is swapping, i.e. you take 
 what you can get
 in terms of bitrate. Sure, higher bitrates sound better, but 
 most extant
 files are lower bitrate. Since it's a lossy compression 
 system there will
 always be a difference, and the louder the P.A. the more audible that
 difference will be. Personally I'm not ready to make the 
 switch yet, though
 I do play with WAVs off a puter.

And the point of that finalscratch software is that it uses decks to
manipulate ANY digital sound source i.e. 24bit 96khz Wavs if you wanted.
But yeah I love analog and digital sound so more choice is better for me.

Steve


Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-11 Thread Jochem_Peteri


needle resonance can add dynamics if mastered properly.


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Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-11 Thread Otto Koppius
Ash wrote:

 Something I don't understand here - so much music is made with samplers and
 other digital devices, so presumably the sound coming out is quantised to
 16-bit/44.1KHz by definition anyway - how can writing that quantised sound
 onto vinyl suddenly give it a better dynamic range / quality ?

I always thought the same as well, but last year when we had the first
Ground Zero and TechnoTourist releases cut, I became a convert (and I
think Hans and KJ too). We had the tracks on DAT, listened to them in
the cutting studio to determine the final EQ adjustments and they
sounded good. Then they were cut and we briefly listened back to the
lacquer and our collective jaws dropped in disbelief at how much better,
deeper, warmer and groovier the tracks sounded. NSC's magic worked.

Not much of an explanation, I admit, but still.

Otto




Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-11 Thread chrise

 I think alot of the quality of the audio goes out the window after digital
 quantizantion.
 
 Something I don't understand here - so much music is made with samplers and
 other digital devices, so presumably the sound coming out is quantised to
 16-bit/44.1KHz by definition anyway - how can writing that quantised sound
 onto vinyl suddenly give it a better dynamic range / quality ?

exactly - even the tracks made with all analgue synths and drum machines
are generally mastered to DAT, which is if i remember right 16 bit 44khz,
same as CD.  

then again, maybe those people who make vinyl masters know some sort of
magic that un-quantizes your digital recording?  yeah, that must be it.

cause, y'know, vinyl is better.

i hate technology, that's why i play techno!





Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-11 Thread --autopilot--
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needle resonance can add dynamics if mastered properly.

Which raises the question, can needle resonance be simulated in a purely
digital domain ? Or does it occur at frequencies above the audible / 22.05
KHz range ? After all, pickups are mechanical devices, so they should have
quite low resonant frequencies.

   :-) (-:
   Ash
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Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-11 Thread --autopilot--
.. which reminds me, *sort of* on topic, and *sort of* a plug, kinda... for
those interested in new [digital] DJing technology and in the London UK
area.

As I've mentioned before, I'm currently working [privately] on an
experimental DJ software project called hummingbird. Runs on a Wintel PC,
controlled through a fostex midi controller, gives you 8 channels of wav
audio, beatmatched offline, with much enhanced control over the music.
Having 8 decks at your disposal (and being able to switch tracks in seconds)
lets you play much more musically - the process is like live remixing as
much as DJing.

I'll playing an IDM/electro/eclectic set with the pre-alpha version in
London on Friday April 20th, at a club called the Rhythm Factory. I'd very
much like to meet and talk to others involved with or interested in
new/digital DJ/performance tech, so if you're in the area, pop me a mail and
I'll try and get you on the guest list - I think it's a fiver to get in
otherwise

cheers
   :-) (-:
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Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-11 Thread Jeffrey Paul

At 08:21 AM 4/11/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

exactly - even the tracks made with all analgue synths and drum machines
are generally mastered to DAT, which is if i remember right 16 bit 44khz,
same as CD.


dat can go up to 48khz sampling (same as most newer soundcards these days) 
(still 16 bit), but it's hard to hear the difference between 44.1 and 48k 
for me with anything less than headphones. (cd is still 44.1/16)




then again, maybe those people who make vinyl masters know some sort of
magic that un-quantizes your digital recording?  yeah, that must be it.


well, i'd think the actual cutting of the groove based on all the digital 
samples 'fills in' the spaces... this is not to say that a dsp that takes, 
say, a 44.1/16 input and interpolates it up to 96/24 and then dumps it out 
a high-quality d/a converter couldn't approximate the feeling.  Also, 
there's all kinds of physics about the needle tracking the groove (the way 
stereo information is encoded in the groove, for example) that might have 
to be dsp-ified to get a noticeable effect  Not that it'll ever be the 
identical due to the storage differences, but vinyl does have it's 
practical resolution limits... hopefully one day consumer-level digital 
audio stuff will be able to hold a candle to it.



cause, y'know, vinyl is better.


duh. :)


i hate technology, that's why i play techno!


rock on

-j


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Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-10 Thread Jochem_Peteri


there´s more to vinyl than just the soundquality, keep listening to our stuff
and find out..i don´t release much stuff on cd, otherwise u could hear the
difference...there can b so much more sub and spatial highs because of needle
resonance and stuffbig up to mike from SSR for showin us the way


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Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-10 Thread Craig Stodolenak

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

there´s more to vinyl than just the soundquality, keep listening to our stuff
and find out..i don´t release much stuff on cd, otherwise u could hear the
difference...there can b so much more sub and spatial highs because of needle
resonance and stuff...


True, vinyl -- or at least new vinyl -- has higher audio dynamics
than CD, but then these enhancements can only be realized with a
proper (and more importantly, properly _tuned_) PA.  Any other
differences between vinyl and CD are due to mastering; processes
which in turn can be encoded to a higher bit and frequency digitization
and saved as files.

So basically what I'm sayin' is that any quality that in the past
was only achievable on vinyl can be done with digital; it just costs
more to reproduce and play.  This is the limiting factor of the moment
but we all understand how these are only temporary obstacles.



- Craig

ps - systems like FinalScratch aren't limited to MP3, but can play
 WAV or AIFFs at any fidelity you choose


RE: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-10 Thread Gwendal Cobert
 Is anyone as excited about this stuff as I am?  Just
 wondering..   / resume your activities.
Same goes for me -  bought a DVD player that reads MP3 CDs + have been
owning a Lyra (1 hour of music) for more than one year now... Doesn't
prevent me from still buying CDs to get a really good sound... To me, it's
not bound to replace vinyl, CD or whatever - just one more format, one more
way of listening to music, perfectly adpated to certain situations, not
others...
Gwendal



Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-10 Thread Scotto
 True, vinyl -- or at least new vinyl -- has higher audio dynamics
 than CD, but then these enhancements can only be realized with a
 proper (and more importantly, properly _tuned_) PA.  Any other
 differences between vinyl and CD are due to mastering; processes
 which in turn can be encoded to a higher bit and frequency digitization
 and saved as files.

I think alot of the quality of the audio goes out the window after digital
quantizantion. they say it's an exacte replicas but I don't see how it can
be. particular in the lower bit rates. the high end jest become swishy or
staccato like. I think it's due to the fact the digital picture is very thin
in the 16k and up. (but most people can not hear above 18k as an adult
anyways) as with analog vinyl the signal never stops. but I don't want to
start a dig/analog debate I sure that it has  been play out on this list in
the past.

now I do know that older vinyl the highest frequency is 16.kHz  17 if the
engineer is good. but in the 80's they had some more break through in riaa's
curve for mastering vinyl to get a better bass response and I think they
also boosted the high end up to around 18khz or 19khz? but I don't remember
the audio class I had were we talked about this we pretty boring and I
sometime drifted off to the innerzone.

and as for mp3's the sound quality is not very good at all. unless you
encode at a high bit rate and then whats the point there huge but I really
don't want to go into my dislike of the audio qualities of mp3's. that
debate has been played out here.

Scott Laakso   ---
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Re: [313] vinyl: not for me; but mp3 cds are.

2001-04-10 Thread DJ DMT
And most funny part is the quality
I love claps the in realaudio format
I don't know why but even the 'to polished' tracks tend to sound a bit
gritty and compressed.
I've also heard a lot of mp3 's recordings of 12 inches and they may differ
a lot !
I also love the visuel feedback in the eq in winamp
a real nice welcome tool on mastering and dynamic control
can also make a track nice and gritty

Dj DMT



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  True, vinyl -- or at least new vinyl -- has higher audio dynamics
  than CD, but then these enhancements can only be realized with a
  proper (and more importantly, properly _tuned_) PA.  Any other
  differences between vinyl and CD are due to mastering; processes
  which in turn can be encoded to a higher bit and frequency digitization
  and saved as files.

 I think alot of the quality of the audio goes out the window after digital
 quantizantion. they say it's an exacte replicas but I don't see how it can
 be. particular in the lower bit rates. the high end jest become swishy or
 staccato like. I think it's due to the fact the digital picture is very
thin
 in the 16k and up. (but most people can not hear above 18k as an adult
 anyways) as with analog vinyl the signal never stops. but I don't want to
 start a dig/analog debate I sure that it has  been play out on this list
in
 the past.

 now I do know that older vinyl the highest frequency is 16.kHz  17 if the
 engineer is good. but in the 80's they had some more break through in
riaa's
 curve for mastering vinyl to get a better bass response and I think they
 also boosted the high end up to around 18khz or 19khz? but I don't
remember
 the audio class I had were we talked about this we pretty boring and I
 sometime drifted off to the innerzone.

 and as for mp3's the sound quality is not very good at all. unless you
 encode at a high bit rate and then whats the point there huge but I really
 don't want to go into my dislike of the audio qualities of mp3's. that
 debate has been played out here.

 Scott Laakso   ---
 ---   imajin/ imagine
 http://www.mp3.com/i_majin
 http://www.ampcast.com/imagine


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