"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Being curious about this whole .mp3, can you or can't you tell issue,
and to lay to rest my own piece of mind, I decided to head downtown
and talk to one of the engineers of my acquaintance at the recording
studio there. They do a lot of work for local artists and the
occasional big name folkie who cruises through town for one reason or
another.

I took along a Acoustic Alchemy CD I have that I'm particularly fond
of just to test a couple of things.

First, depending on the sampling rate, you can hear a difference
between the CD and the .mp3. However, it becomes harder as the
sampling rate is increased and in truth, at around 250 kbps it became
harder to discern. At the max 320 kbps it was almost impossible and
to be totally honest, I'm not sure I could tell in terms of what I was
looking for.

The reason I used this particular CD is because there is a mistake in
oen of the songs, about two seconds long, in which there is a chording
mistake. My theory went this way - at the higher compression rates,
the mistake could and would be more noticeable and at lower rates the
mistake would be less noticeable.

It turned out that it didn't make a difference - probably because I
knew it was there and was looking for it.

However, I could notice a difference in the whole song at 128 kbps and
at 192 kbps - at 256 kbps it really was hard to tell the difference.

Just as an experiment, we went lower to 64 kbps and artifacts crept in
at that point which kind of proves a point about compression.

So I guess we're all right in a way - what it really depends on is (1)
the format being used to compress the file and (2) the sampling rate.

I feel better anyway.

Damn you.........damn all of you audio snobs.

I am sitting here listening to some classical musical on my new
headphones....but they are MP3's coming from Itunes on my computer!

I hear imperfections, minor....but I hear
them............................damn it. I never heard them before reading
this thread. My night is ruined. I can no longer enjoy my music as I used
to.

Damn you audio snobs! ;-)

" JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT comREMOVETHIS wrote in message
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Damn you.........damn all of you audio snobs.

I am sitting here listening to some classical musical on my new
headphones....but they are MP3's coming from Itunes on my computer!

I hear imperfections, minor....but I hear
them............................damn it. I never heard them before
reading this thread. My night is ruined. I can no longer enjoy my music
as I used to.

Damn you audio snobs! ;-)


At the risk of opening another Pandora's Box, a computer isn't the best
platform in the world to listen to music from directly. All kinds of
electronic noise resides in the switching power supplies among other things.
Can't you store the music directly into your Ipod or iPOD or whatever it is
and listen to them from there? Might be cleaner.

RCE

"RCE" wrote in message
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" JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT comREMOVETHIS wrote in message
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Damn you.........damn all of you audio snobs.

I am sitting here listening to some classical musical on my new
headphones....but they are MP3's coming from Itunes on my computer!

I hear imperfections, minor....but I hear
them............................damn it. I never heard them before
reading this thread. My night is ruined. I can no longer enjoy my music
as I used to.

Damn you audio snobs! ;-)


At the risk of opening another Pandora's Box, a computer isn't the best
platform in the world to listen to music from directly. All kinds of
electronic noise resides in the switching power supplies among other
things. Can't you store the music directly into your Ipod or iPOD or
whatever it is and listen to them from there? Might be cleaner.

RCE


I realize that. Just making a funny. ;-)

" JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT comREMOVETHIS wrote in message
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"RCE" wrote in message
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" JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT comREMOVETHIS wrote in message
...

Damn you.........damn all of you audio snobs.

I am sitting here listening to some classical musical on my new
headphones....but they are MP3's coming from Itunes on my computer!

I hear imperfections, minor....but I hear
them............................damn it. I never heard them before
reading this thread. My night is ruined. I can no longer enjoy my
music as I used to.

Damn you audio snobs! ;-)


At the risk of opening another Pandora's Box, a computer isn't the best
platform in the world to listen to music from directly. All kinds of
electronic noise resides in the switching power supplies among other
things. Can't you store the music directly into your Ipod or iPOD or
whatever it is and listen to them from there? Might be cleaner.

RCE


I realize that. Just making a funny. ;-)


BTW: In a way I was quite serious. I am hearing things now that never
bothered me.

Damn you.........damn all of you audio and photo snobs. ;-)

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:20:40 -0500, JimH wrote:


BTW: In a way I was quite serious. I am hearing things now that never
bothered me.

Damn you.........damn all of you audio and photo snobs. ;-)

The $downside$ of an educated ear. If we ever discuss wine, say goodbye
to the $10 bottle. ;-)