There are plenty of people who prefer digital to
analog. There isn't anything "wrong" with digital, it
just sounds bad to me. Its a matter of different
ears. Higher quality encoding levels aleviate this
somewhat but the fact remains that my ears prefer
analog or at least "first generation" digital.
My brother can't watch DVD's because he has a genetic
"defect" in his vision that makes DVD's give him
migraine headaches after only a few minutes. Analog
movies don't do this to him.
It's similar to that for me, MP3's make my brain hurt.
All the sub & super sonics are gone. All of the nice
peaks and valleys in the overall wave form are
flattened out. This is how encoding/compression
works. Decide what people can't hear/doesn't matter
and throw it out. Since I play bass, I notice when
sub-sonics are gone. Thats half my instrument!
Thats why I don't like MP3s.
Dacia
--- Larry Hignight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure that I agree with the whole sound
> quality
> thing. I've encoded a number of mp3's of the past
> year
> using grip/bladeEnc at 320. Everyone that I've had
> listen to both the mp3 and the original cd says that
> they
> can't tell the difference. Others say they can but
> the
> result is totally random. One of my friends
> actually
> prefers the sound of the mp3's. He was a former
> musician
> and he picked the mp3 file like five out of six
> times.
> The lesson? Encode your mp3's at a higher bit rate
> and
> don't use the crappy sound xing encoder .... the
> disk
> space? In a year you'll be buring a 100gig drive
> for
> under $100 and you can get 650meg cdr's for .40 now.
>
> Larry
>
> Dacia and AzureRose scribed:
>
> > Speaking as a musician, I've never heard an MP3
> that
> > didn't sound flat, compressed, uninspiring and
> > insipid. In my opinion they aren't worth paying
> for.
> > The only use for them that makes any sense to me
> is
> > for marketing ends.
> >
> > So, theres my .02 for what its worth from a person
> who
> > is almost completely disinterested in the whole
> > napster/MP3/RIAA thing. Looks like idiots
> fighting
> > over who owns the storm in sandstorm ;-)
> >
> > Dacia
>
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