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In the Thread: Why I hate computer playback.
Post Subject: I think it all depends of context.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/14/2012
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Thanks. Rony. I will certainly try the iTune, Linn channel and the rest of them. My opinion about them worth little as the “quietly” is always in context of… context. It is absolutely not arguable that 320kbps, or any other kbps steam for this matter, are not good. The MP3 stream implies digital compression and that is not good. I never was able to make rate, depth, volume change without DSP with killing Sound, not to mention to inflict such a horrible impact as recalculation the whole file in order to compress it into kbps MP3 stream. Still, would I consider the 320kbps is not listenable if the quality of sound is not important? Of cause not! There are zillion events when quality and fidelity of sound is absolutely does not matter – so why do not use whatever is convenient at the given tine?
For instance I just returned from a Caribbean trip. The subject of music was very important to me and to my girlfriend. She has Bose portable amplifier the can play 10 hours from her iPhone on battery. She is Mac user and she has her music in her phone, all in mp3 and I presume at lover rate then320kbps. So, I can for sure can bitch here and there about “the horror” of the mp3 and I will not be wrong. However, her mp3 player and her Bose amps were also the source of immense pleasure during our vacation. You can’t not imagine how wonderful is to lay at the St. John’s Maho beach to listen the Bruckner 8th, or to hide from sun under St. Thomas’ Magens beach’s trees and to listen some Bach. The iPad, the Amy’s mp3 collection and the Bose radio were truly one of many great successes of the trip. I am for sure will love to have Macondo, Milq and TT out there but it would be kind if unpractical….
Rgs,
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