@millercarbon,
"MP3 simply sounds like crap."
I would like to start by apologising if you were triggered by the word prejudice, but your reply perfectly highlights the very point I was making.
You do realise that many folk cannot distinguish between CD and 192kbps, let alone 320kbps?
"You’re saying provenance matters ... with digital??! Really?!?"
Provenance refers to the original source of something. In painting or photography it would be the original canvas or the negative.
In audio it’s usually the original master tape.
2nd or 3rd generation tapes can never be improvements, can they?
Even with digital there are often different masterings, so comparing like for like is not always so straightforward.
When you stream you are often presented with different masterings. Sometimes their provenance is made clear, but not always.
For example when listening to Revolver you might want to know is it the 1987 or the 2009? Is it stereo or the mono.
It gets even worse with Pepper.
"PS- you posted this in music. But the subject- which granted it is hard to tell just what the subject is, but it sure ain’t music"
The clue is in the title. For sure it’s a wide ranging subject but I hope we can both agree that the music matters most.
@mahgister,
"There are differences between lossless and too much compressed files in any relatively good system, especially if rightfully embedded..."
Yes, but at what point are they too much compressed?
Is ’too much’ at 128, 160, 192, 256 or even 320kbps?
I don’t mind confessing that I can’t easily hear any difference above 192kbps. As far as I know, no one else can either.
Yet the derision for MP3 continues.
"MP3 simply sounds like crap."
I would like to start by apologising if you were triggered by the word prejudice, but your reply perfectly highlights the very point I was making.
You do realise that many folk cannot distinguish between CD and 192kbps, let alone 320kbps?
"You’re saying provenance matters ... with digital??! Really?!?"
Provenance refers to the original source of something. In painting or photography it would be the original canvas or the negative.
In audio it’s usually the original master tape.
2nd or 3rd generation tapes can never be improvements, can they?
Even with digital there are often different masterings, so comparing like for like is not always so straightforward.
When you stream you are often presented with different masterings. Sometimes their provenance is made clear, but not always.
For example when listening to Revolver you might want to know is it the 1987 or the 2009? Is it stereo or the mono.
It gets even worse with Pepper.
"PS- you posted this in music. But the subject- which granted it is hard to tell just what the subject is, but it sure ain’t music"
The clue is in the title. For sure it’s a wide ranging subject but I hope we can both agree that the music matters most.
@mahgister,
"There are differences between lossless and too much compressed files in any relatively good system, especially if rightfully embedded..."
Yes, but at what point are they too much compressed?
Is ’too much’ at 128, 160, 192, 256 or even 320kbps?
I don’t mind confessing that I can’t easily hear any difference above 192kbps. As far as I know, no one else can either.
Yet the derision for MP3 continues.