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Redpyramidhead · Apr 28th, 2008, 09:10 PM

Actually you should all be concerned about the sound quality of the music you listen to. MP3 is an extremely lossy format. Whatever algorithms are used to create MP3 files out of much large original WAV files... they have to exclude certain things from the sound you end up with. Usually that is what the programmers deem the least likely for the "average" consumer to notice in sound quality... but once aware of it, any fool can hear the major difference. This is supposed to be an advancement in technology, but what is really happening? Movies are going Hi Def now, but what is happening to the music we listen to? Sure... its great to fit thousands of tunes on your ipod, but you are not giving your ears the full experience originally intended by the musicians and recording, mix, and master engineers. Our children will grow up never expereiencing sound the way we did.

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Apr 28th, 2008, 09:10 PM	#12
Redpyramidhead pazparacolombia Joined: Sep 2002 Location: Restless dreams... Age: 45 Posts: 2,002	Actually you should all be concerned about the sound quality of the music you listen to. MP3 is an extremely lossy format. Whatever algorithms are used to create MP3 files out of much large original WAV files... they have to exclude certain things from the sound you end up with. Usually that is what the programmers deem the least likely for the "average" consumer to notice in sound quality... but once aware of it, any fool can hear the major difference. This is supposed to be an advancement in technology, but what is really happening? Movies are going Hi Def now, but what is happening to the music we listen to? Sure... its great to fit thousands of tunes on your ipod, but you are not giving your ears the full experience originally intended by the musicians and recording, mix, and master engineers. Our children will grow up never expereiencing sound the way we did. REd __________________ "..loathsome laughing, mixed with such a cry as no man has heard save for in the phlegathon of unrelatable nightmares; a cry wherein reverberated the horror and anguish of a haunted lifetime packed into one atrocious moment..."