Re: Completely OT: What gets lost when you compress music

2015-03-20 Thread Colin Holgate
Isn’t the article about MP3 in particular? An m4a file is most like using AAC, which is a lot better quality for the same data rate as MP3. >That's a pretty broad brush dismissing 'MP3s', as there are a lot of ways to >data compress audio today. ___ us

Re: Completely OT: What gets lost when you compress music

2015-03-20 Thread stephen barncard
That's a pretty broad brush dismissing 'MP3s', as there are a lot of ways to data compress audio today. Granted there have been many instances where bad encoding or slow rates have diminished the aural experience, but newer compression techniques and better algorithms get the audio to a point where

RE: Completely OT: What gets lost when you compress music

2015-03-20 Thread Ralph DiMola
I do and always have had a hard time listening to mp3s. If any of these kids today ever heard original German pressings of Beethoven's 5th Symphony or Beatles Revolver on reference system, I think they would be more than amazed. Just try to hear the little hi-hat nuance in Steely Dan's Peg from the