At 10:52 AM 10/6/00 -0400, Ray Dillinger wrote:
For the sake of us audiophiles, please don't. MP3 is tinny and flat at best;
Then why are you 'audiophiles' traumatizing yourselves by listening to it?
it ticks me off that most folks seem to hear it as "good
enough", because if most folks hear it as "good enough" it means we're not going to get a better sound format widely used.
First 'good enough' depends on environment, e.g., ambient noise ---how about that computer fan, much less the noise in a car?
Second, why did we evolve CDs if LPs were 'good enough' for most? [Besides portability]
Portability, and durability were primary concerns, plus it's cheaper to make a "decent" sounding CD system than a *decent* sounding analog system. LPs (Well, *properly cared for LPS from early in the production run) (even to my Tin Ear) sound *better* than CDs when played on high end equipment, and when playing music where absolute fidelity matters. CDs are just cheaper to produce, easier to carry around, subject to less degradation when *mildly* abused etc. -- A quote from Petro's Archives: ********************************************** Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural