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I have ripped all my CDs at max sampling rates. They still sound like listening to dead people, but better than the awful awful quality of purchase mp3s, and I do have a very nice pair of Bose to warm up my coffee, but it is still very much bad coffee. I guess one day it will improve (not the iPhone battery though, ooh nooooo), though i'm struggling to see how you can compress without losing quality.


For starters no one has managed to convert to digital without losing a little something along the way, but I tried waking along with a valve amplifier and turntable strapped to me; not only did my back give out after twenty yards, the wow and flutter was a bitch!!

mockney piers Wrote:

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> I have ripped all my CDs at max sampling rates.


Still MP3 though? They will always have "that" sound to them. Have you tried FLAC/ALAC? But honestly, if you're that concerned about the quality, you shouldn't really be using an ipod!


> For starters no one has managed to convert to digital without losing a little something along the way


It's a myth... you don't lose anything by converting to digital, you get a much more faithful reproduction of the original sound than with analogue mediums. You actually lose accuracy/frequency respose by storing on tape/vinyl, and pick up a whole load of artifacts along the way.


Some people may prefer the sound of vinyl, valve gear, etc... but it's in no way objectively better.

How can appreciation fo music be objectively measured?


Myth my arse, how do you measure the quality of DAC?


Sounds like circular logic to me, like all those data migration validation scripts i've ever written, all they do is validate my data migration scripts.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> At first I thought the MrBen account had been

> hacked and spammed.

>

> I wonder how much of the price goes towards the

> celebrity endorsements?


Agreed - if this chap has handled them then I'll pass.

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mockney piers Wrote:

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> How can appreciation fo music be objectively

> measured?

>

> Myth my arse, how do you measure the quality of

> DAC?

>

> Sounds like circular logic to me, like all those

> data migration validation scripts i've ever

> written, all they do is validate my data migration

> scripts.



Dude, none of us understood a word of that.

mockney piers Wrote:

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> How can appreciation fo music be objectively measured?


Of course, it can't. But accuracy of reproduction can certainly be measured. You said that music loses something by being stored digitally... I am saying that the CD will without doubt be a more faithful reproduction of the masters that the vinyl!


Nothing wrong with vinyl or valve gear of course, but people like it specifically because it colours the sound. Each to their own.


Not circular logic at all, just horses for courses. Different gear for different purposes and tastes.

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