Re: Why I hate .mp3 (was Freeserve Time)

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

> My opinion of you has just plummeted Mark:)

Sorry to hear that.

>.mp3 IMHO is one of the worst
> things that could have happened to music reproduction.

I never said it replaced my hifi!   It's undoubtedly lower quality but I
can
quite easily put up with that on my PC.  However, I'm not one of the
Audiophile types that uses "directional" speaker cable and all
that
"emperors new clothes" stuff!!

> While the industry is
> struggling to introduce SACD, and DVD Audio forget multi-channel, but
let
> the increased sampling rate and word length bring us digital
convenience
> with sound quality approaching the best analogue playback systems,
another
> camp is pushing for convenience over quality. For those of us who
listen
to
> music rather than just have ambient background sounds, the move
towards
mass
> market acceptance of an inferior medium will only serve to push good
quality
> HiFi into even more of a specialist arena than it is already.

I'm afraid that's the reality Tim.  The man in the street doesn't even buy
seperates.  If you are talking about high end audio you are always going to
be in small, expensive, minority market.

> And while I'm ranting, what about Virgin radio's ad, about receiving
"CD
> quality" sound on Sky digital? It's not bad - but again it uses
mpeg
> compression technology. If anyone doesn't beleive me, I can do an A-B
> demonstration of the difference!

Yes but come on...it's night and day better than AM !!

> I feel better now I've got that off my chest.

Now...go and lie down in a darkened room!  :0)

M.




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