cool...
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:18 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>wrote: > On Mon Dec 9 17:54:11 EST 2013, conor.willi...@gmail.com wrote: > > > FLAC seems huge (again) compared to Mp3 but I will try the Flac - > according > > to: > > http://www.head-fi.org/t/654057/alac-vs-flac > > there is good compression alright... > > sure. but that's not engineering. engineering is balancing the cost > of a resource vs the benefit. so we're trading storage against sound > quality. storage is ~$15/GB, and sound quality is subjective. so > it's up to the customer to determine where on this continuum the > solution should be. but it does seem a tad rich to say that an extra > $10 or so of storage is extravagant (assuming steve's 50% compression.) > > - erik > >
