When you listen to the "music" most people listen to, the quality hardly matters. :)
However, there are lossless audio compression formats, and formats that can support higher bit-rates (and therefore presumably higher fidelity) than standard CDs, so I guess the advertising is true. It's just that most people are happy to trade quality for small file size. As far as amateur communications go I think the quality of the transmitted audio makes more difference than the quality of the receiver. Some of the cleanest sounding SSB I have ever heard came from the Kenwood TS-520 / TS-820 / TS-830 transceivers with their tube finals. Then solid state PAs came along. I doubt if even the K3 output stages will have better linearity and IMD than a pair of 6146Bs in push-pull, but Elecraft is always capable of surprising us. ;) -- Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392 K3 s/n: ??? G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com Ham-Directory: www.ham-directory.com On 8/24/07, Don Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO, as a society, we may declining rapidly in audio perception when I > hear advertising statements which hint that MP3 recordings are better > quality than CD recordings! We have finally achieved good quality > digital preservation of sound waves, and now the iPod crowd and its > popularity may be diminishing the easy availability of high quality > recordings for the consumer - that trend concerns me. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
