chinablues;456882 Wrote: > The OP's 'conclusion' post gave a good & detailed summary of the various > postings, but I have to agree with the comment from iPhone...QUALITY > enters into the picture for me. ...
indeed - but that was exactly my point when saying that most people reading and posting into this forum, and spending much thought on the subject, are the minority in the market. so don't assume your neighbor is going to need your setup, that's all. :-) i agree with the quality statement, but then again quality from a certain point on is relative. the audiophile that laughs at someone spending $5k on esoteric cables (while having spent 10k on speakers himself) may in turn be laughed at by someone with a very clean, simple sub-$2k setup that actually can sound pretty darn good these days. where do you drawe the line for quality? i agree that 128k MP3 is unacceptable for truly concentrated listening - but think that 256k MP3s sond pretty good, and that a lot of music that audiophiles t this day use as a reference (Orff "carmina Burana" anyone) does not need FLAC, arguably the original recordning is not diminished an ounce at 192k. then again stuff like Kevin Mahogany's "pride and enjoy" - it begs for FLAC and a deserving system to breathe and induce utter musical bliss. the point is - quality is very relative, and while no doubt is based on some truths in technology and setup, it also to a certain degree includes some less rational considerations with some regularity. anyhow, anyone posting to this discussion is *not* representative of the market average, we think *way* too much about quality. most people do not even care to hear a difference between 128k and higher resolution and just want convenience and a nice background soundtrack here and there. -- pablolie ...pablo Server: 3.3 GHz Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo (8GB) - Vista Ultimate 64 and Ubuntu 9.04 64 Sources: SB3 (3), SB Boom (3), Duet, Accuphase DP65v CD Amplifier: Accuphase E306v Loudspeakers: Ceeroy 3-way tower (tuned) Headphones: Grado SR-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67637 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
