Re: [ARSCLIST] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] CD Longevity (was Vinegar syndrome audio tapes

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Frank:

I can't comment on anyone else's hearing. To my ears, 192K MP3 sound OK over earbuds from an iPod, 
but when played on a real system with good speakers, they don't sound anything near CD quality or, 
better, high-resolution digital. But that's just my opinion. If the mass audience really hated 
digi-compressed file formats, they wouldn't be so popular.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Strauss" <frank.strauss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:42 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] CD Longevity (was Vinegar syndrome audio tapes


> Hi Tom-I am a long time lurker on this list, trying to learn what I can, and have been very 
> interested in this thread.  I have put about 500 cd's into iTunes, using mp3 format at 196 kbs.  I 
> love music, and have always thought I had reasonably good ears.  I am disturbed to think that with 
> iTunes(and by this, I probably mean any compressed format) you have vastly inferior audio quality. 
> It is probably my aging ears, but I have trouble telling which is the original cd and which is the 
> iTunes mp3.  Are you or others on this list able to listen to both formats without knowing which 
> is which, and tell the difference? (As in the test in Grand Central Station, NYC, where they had 
> live behind one curtain and AR speakers behind the other)  Thanks, FBS