Re: encoding older music

2011-10-01 Thread Dave Scrimenti
ist" Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 2:02 PM Subject: RE: encoding older music Keep in mind that you don't know the history of anything you get free from the web. For example, if you find a site with higher bit rates, you don't know if there wasn't a point where it existed at

RE: encoding older music

2011-10-01 Thread Steve Jacobson
g] >On Behalf Of Dave Scrimenti >Sent: 30 September 2011 10:08 PM >To: PC Audio Discussion List >Subject: Re: encoding older music >Once music started being recorded on tape, (1950 and later), the quality is >sufficiently good that you might not want to compromise. Prior to th

Re: encoding older music

2011-10-01 Thread Dave Scrimenti
o Discussion List'" Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 1:56 AM Subject: RE: encoding older music Dave I use a NAD amplifier with a good pair of british speakers and an older Emagic USB sound card which was when it came out supposed to be very high quality. So you will understand why I am askin

RE: encoding older music

2011-09-30 Thread André van Deventer
hear the difference in sound quality between different encodings. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dave Scrimenti Sent: 30 September 2011 10:08 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: encoding older music Once

Re: encoding older music

2011-09-30 Thread Dave Scrimenti
--- Original Message - From: "Byron Stephens" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 5:09 PM Subject: Re: encoding older music You can get away also with lower bitrates with metal, provided it's 192 kbps. For older music from the 60's an

Re: encoding older music

2011-09-30 Thread Byron Stephens
Audio Discussion List" Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 1:07 PM Subject: Re: encoding older music Once music started being recorded on tape, (1950 and later), the quality is sufficiently good that you might not want to compromise. Prior to that, you can get away with it more. On the other hand

Re: encoding older music

2011-09-30 Thread Dave Scrimenti
- Original Message - From: "André van Deventer" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 11:55 AM Subject: encoding older music Hi folks! I again dare to open the can of worms which is the encoding of music which is downloaded from the i

encoding older music

2011-09-30 Thread André van Deventer
Hi folks! I again dare to open the can of worms which is the encoding of music which is downloaded from the internet. But today I have a different slant. For reasonably new stuff I do not believe that you can compromise especially when it comes to music with large orchestras. 320 mp3 3