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Re: MP3 Format (WAS All My CDs Marked down to $5.00)
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!