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great cartoon, Stephen! I fully agree with you on MP3's. I hear my own tunes go from cassette to WAV to MP3, and can hear the dramatic changes in each stage. Even at the highest-bit encoding, there's just something missing with MP3. (personally, I prefer cassette even to WAV, but I think that's more of a personal taste thing...I still prefer vinyl to anything else). Daryl Shawn www.swanwelder.com > (back into text mode!) > It's not just the physical quality though. After six years away from > my old CD collection in storage, and just as long accumulating MP3 > copies of some of the more beloved tracks, I found an old cassette of > a combination of songs not only about driving, but also containing the > kind of guitar bits that make me like to play. There was no label, > and I popped it into a deck to see what it was, to hear Cross-town > Traffic and Easy Rider, for a start. > > On one level I found it cosmically encouraging given the timing of my > getting back to playing the acoustic this week; on another different > level, I found myself far more satisfied with the sound quality of my > cassettes than MP3s. Sure, I used to take pains to assure max quality > when I made tapes for myself, but it was as much of a difference as I > experience between cassettes and CDs. And made me begin to question > the use of the format at all, except as a promotional or sales > sample. Or it's a down week. I had to fire another plumber today! Ugh!