Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:01:10 -0500, " JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT
comREMOVETHIS wrote:


The bottom line is that I don't think that *many* folks can distinguish the
difference in sound quality between an MP3 and a CD on/in the average home,
boat or car stereo syste


Probably not, but in a home? I think so.

Of course the other problem is that I have abnormally acute hearing
even at my middle age - I can hear things others "normal" can't.

So I suppose that enters into it somehow.


I have below average hearing, I am most certainly not an audiophile and
I have no problem telling the difference between a vinyl LP (the best
range of sound), a CD(often missing a lot of the middle range compared
to analogue), and an mp3 with a bit rate below 250 (sounds like AM
radio), played on my home stereo.

Brings to mind first-year physics labs. My 3 lab partners were all
male. One day we went in and the lab instructor says - "Guys you'll be
doing this one today". It was an experiment on finding harmonics. She
told me women can't ususally hear the spot as easily as men. It was
true. My partners had no problem hearing the harmonic point as we
filled the glass tube with water. I heard a vague buzzing. The tables
were turned when we did optics. Find a second or third order green in a
split spectrum. I can discern, under the right conditions, up to seven
orders. My partners only saw one shade of green.

Stella