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In Reply to: RE: Good On Kramer! posted by geezerrocket on October 15, 2014 at 06:08:48
Need to get out more, if you are using mp3 and 16/44.1 in the same sentence.
Not that much wrong with 16/44.1 as a format. Mostly just shortcomings in recording and playback technology.
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One format (mp3) sucks ass, the other (16/44.1) sucks slightly less......
To paraphrase Paul McGowan of PS Audio fame; Great digital struggles to achieve what is easily attainable by even modest analog.
PS Audio puts beans on the table with their digital offerings.
I was a vegetarian for 15 minutes, until the main course.......Meat; It's the right thing to do. Romans 14:2
Hi, geezerrocket,
In my experience, the relative sound quality of MP3 compared to redbook CD (16/44.1) is far more of a difference than "sucks slightly less". I am able to enjoy music played from CDs, nearly as much as from LPs, but I cannot listen to music played from MP3 quality files. The sound hurts my brain and I can usually immediately tell that I'm listening to lossy digital files. (The exception is if the playback device is basically a cheap piece-o-crap and anything played on it would hurt your ears.)
You might be able to make your case if CDs were universally badly recorded and mastered, but the sound quality from many modern CDs is quite good, especially if played on a relatively decent system. Perhaps you're just very sensitive to 16/44.1 resolution. If so, that's unfortunate, because you're missing out on a lot of great music.
Regards,
Tom
stacks up against Audio Note or DCS 16/44.1.
The price difference is huge.
Too big for me!
Those rooms NOT exclusively playing vinyl, and many were, were either playing directly from a computer of some sort and/or spinning silver disks.
I'd say over half of the rooms would willingly play just about any CD you brought into the room and most of those were 16/44.1 Redbook CDs.
In fact, many rooms playing music from files of one sort or another would announce that what you were hearing was ripped CD's not Hi Rez.
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