![]() ![]() He stated that what difference there was could not be detected by the human ear. Is there a difference in quality of CDs and downloaded music? 2. check out my thread in this forum regarding my "starter system" that was built on the same budget as yours. My concern is if that is going to compromise future development of formats that are greater than CD like Super Audio CD or DVD-Audio.and that makes me sad as a music lover and someone who loves to find detail. The really sad part is that the mass market doesn't seem to care because all they want to hear is the the beat of the next catchy radio tune played over lo-fi ear buds in an attempt to drown out their unhappy existence in this world. We have one group of minds focused on making recorded music as accurate as possible and another group trying to compress it as much as possible and that puts the market at odds with itself. however the mass public seems to only care about squeezing another 20 songs on their iPod regardless of how it sounds. as technology keeps getting better we have better ways to record and reproduce music. It is a sad state that the world is in these days with regards to this topic. this is totally lost in the MP3 version (even at 320k). That echo is actually reverb/echo in the arena feeding back into the singers mic and having a split second delay. put in the CD and all of a sudden i am very distracted by an echo on the Sax solos. ![]() the band features a sax and when listening to the MP3 the live show sounds top notch. I have live CD by a rock band named O.A.R. ![]() you are taking a medium that is already compromised (CD - 44.4k / 16 bit PCM) and compressing it 8-16 times! there HAS to be loss!Īnother great example. Imaging, tonal accuracy and instrument harmonics are all blurred by the compression. I cant tell you how disappointed i was in my digital music collection once i started playing it on a system that is able to reproduce the most fine details.Įven comparing my 320kbps MP3 to the original CD there is NO comparison. Over the years i have acquired a few thousand songs on MP3 format on my computer and have even invested in a studio grade sound card for my home recording projects. Much like you i just spent $5k on a new home system and it is my first real home stereo system (dabbled in "mid-fi" home and hi-fi car audio for years). Having said all that I'm sure you know what the rest of my answer is going to be. our goal as music lovers and audiophiles it to find the least altered recording and to reproduce it in the most authentic way possible so that we may be able to hear deeper into the intricacies of the music we love so much. Even the CD is an inaccurate source.especially at the higher frequencies where the sampling rate is barely twice the frequency of the sound and thus many high frequencies are "best guess estimates". all recordings compromise the original sound in some manner. there is no such thing as a TRUE lossless recording. ![]() but i know its real and if i center myself in the room all the doubled beats go away. I try to explain to friends who are standing next to me but they never hear it and joke that i have made myself crazy. when i go to venues now i usually hear two beats: one right and one left.due to the pathlength differences from the various speakers in the club. having spent so many hours listening to multiple beats played on top of one another and having to analyze which one is faster and slower has made me incredibly sensitive to beats that are not in time.to an annoying point. and in those years i have trained my ears to pick up on things that not many people ever hear. I have been DJ'ing House/Trance music for about 8 yrs. most of the time in life we are limited by what we think we can do.and this applies to listening as well and here is an example. You can pick up on things that you never thought you could but you do have to train your ears a bit before you really can hear it. The human ear and brain is probably the most amazing listening device ever. ![]()
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