pfarrell;338181 Wrote: > DeVerm wrote: > > I am so amazed that nobody in this long thread realizes that any > form > > of digital representation of music is flawed, period. > > What drivel. > Any attempt to record and replay music is flawed, period. Analog, > Digital, or something not yet invented. > > Troll on > > Pat
Hey Pat, you're smart, I should keep an eye on you here... ;-) But I'm not really trolling although part of what I write is my way of having fun without any meaning to be nasty; the whole is really meant to add to the discussion. Your statement above is true; my statement is a subset of yours and also true. Your's is better but mine serves the same purpose: trying to get readers to step back and look at what we're really talking about. Read my follow-ups and you'll see what I mean; when you apply a filter for my ironic remarks you will/could see that something serious is still there. We don't have to be all business, do we? I'll re-phrase: considering that the recording as present in the flac is flawed anyway, how much difference would it make to flaw it a little extra by coding it into a 320-mp3? How much more percentage of loss would that give as compared to the actual live performance? Do you dare to put a number on that? would it be more than 0.1% or less than that? Even if some (young enough people with still good ears) can detect the difference by listening, is that tiny difference important enough to reject the mp3 for enjoying the performance? If it is, wouldn't that be for psychological reasons instead of the technical (which would be just as valid a reason)? If that little difference is so important to a person, wouldn't the person be better off trying to improve in other areas where bigger gains are to be expected, like moving to HD audio? IMHO that would also improve the experience on both technical -and- psychological levels. When we get to these very small differences, I think it's better to just buy new caps for the amp or new coils for the speakers as these improvements (maintenance?) are audible to even my old ears. cheers, Nick. -- DeVerm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DeVerm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18104 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51021 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
