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in the name of the father and of the sun and of the holy.........
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Super Audio CD is a superb format. The Downward Spiral is simply a masterpiece in its 5.1 glory.
My whole opinion on this is that nothing else than 320kbs CBR will do when it comes to mp3. I'm not a fan of the format as it is, so accepting anything under is a no go. Don't forget that these days if you're buying your tracks as mp3 that after you've recorded a mix you'll be then compressing that recording also. Which will degrade the quality even further.
As has been said earlier. The whole mp3 revolution came out of convenience rather than being a superior format. Unfortunately it's stuck. We have definitely gone backwards as a whole. People now happily listen to 96kbs mp3's through tinny ipod headphones or, worse still, listening to it through their phones loudspeaker (I actually yearn for someone to get on the train home with a ridiculous ghettoblaster like the good old days).
Hopefully with hard drives getting ever increasing storage space and internet connections getting ever faster we may start to see FLAC take over as a compression standard. Although quite frankly I'd rather see an advance on physical medium itself. We've been stuck on 16bit 44.1khz for over 20 years. And once you've heard SACD or DVD-Audio (NIN for the former, BT - This Binary Universe for the latter) doing it's thing you'd be wanting to know why.
Anyways, rant over.
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mp3 for an Ipod, or small speakers at work it´s perfect... Nowadays music is so compressed in the mastering, that it sounds like shit directly from origin.
At my sound system, I´m staying with my cds.
btw, there are many kinds of compression for mp3. LAME or VBR doesn´t sound so bad for compressed music.
just my opinion.It´s a spiritual thing!
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Think you guys need to check out some of these high resolution audio to see what things really sound like, lol
Personally I rip everything to lame --preset-standard and it lands about 185 VBR and sounds fine. Obv if anything were to even be played out it would be FLAC all the way
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i think everyone should have/look into getting a high end DAW - to see all the wonderful things they can do with sound, as well as all the easy mistakes one can make by making the wrong moves. for instance: this issue on compression and distortion is quite considerable, and many are really sick of all the shitty mastering done (wrong leveling with meters etc.) by so many artist, djs, nowadays. "kill the loudness war" ffs. so every time i come across tracks "in the red" i have to go in and compensate to make it sound relatively balanced.
yeah Simon, using WAV is very unrealistic forsure. but when you have tetrabytes, TBs, you can work to contain those god aweful size of files. i'll do a 45min to 90min mix, and when it's rendered to disc in WAV, they usually range in size from 500MB to 1.5GB
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Enough of this shit, and it doesn't matter either way
Except for tomorrow morning..., then it's back to 192
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95%+ of the people cant even notice the difference between 128, 192, 320kbs or wav.
But the ones that can (includes me and i guess many more on this forum) will always prefer, like my brother Haziel, the higher the better.
Also if you listen to music on shitty 15$ headphones you shouldnt worry about soundquality
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i don't touch anything under 320
i never buy mp3. WAV FTW. true musicians/audio engineers will be able to tell the difference.Comment
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