On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 05:24:50PM -0500, David Pickett wrote: > You say that, but I have recently been transferring old cassettes to > hard drive and, given that they have a limited bandwidth of about > 15kHz, the noise is not intrusive and I have been amazed at the > quality -- a quality that mp3 files do not approach.
While I do agree in principle, the 'quality' you appreciate may have more to do with the content or production than with the storage medium. Whenever I listen to one of my old Beatles or Doors LPs, either the real thing or from hard disk, I'm amazed by the sound. Compared to that 99% of what's produced today just *sounds* like crap, even when ignoring the complete lack of musical inspiration. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
