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

[Lou Judson <loujudson@xxxxxxx>]

Try this: take one of your MP3s and burn it to an audio CD (CD-DA) and 
then try playing them back to back in a CD player (NOT the computer) 
and see if you can detect a difference. Let us know...

I find MP3s and such listenable for casual use, much as cassettes were, 
but never copy them or you'll see the big didderence, which is in what 
is missing...

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Jan 21, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Frank Strauss wrote:

> 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