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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles It suggests to me that a lot of people don't actually know what high quality sounds like anymore.

I agree but again I think it goes back to convenience. If you can pay 99 cents per song online, or get in your car, head to a store, deal with parking and try to find the CD (after all the store might not even have it in stock) what would you rather do? Most people, especially now, would rather take the online option, sure it means you'll get a dip in quality (compressed mp3, m4a, whatever vs. a CD) but at least you get it NOW.

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Think I'm going to look for an old DAT recorder HSS:

4 tracks, 24 bit, 88,2 and 96 kHz, at least sounds impressive......


I always use VBR for MP3.

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oh dear.



oh dear.

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It's official, young people suck.

I can't wait until MP3 isn't needed anymore as WAV's are distributed just like MP3s are now.

At least then I'll have a reason to buy a valve headphone pre-amp and some seriously expensive Sennheisers (no, not HD25mk2s').

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i can't stand poor sound reproduction. i refuse to deejay on substandard systems as well, all music sounds like shit when it is not reproduced well, regardless of whether i ordinarily like it or not.

Im surprised flac files have not been mentioned.

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Originally posted by euphoria Im surprised flac files have not been mentioned.

I'm not, it doesn't exist for me.

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lets face it.

to the majority of the people out there, music is something entirely disposable that is not even worth paying for. The preference of low bitrate mp3 is probably more because it can be grabbed faster and they can fit more on their mp3 players.

most of them do not know what sound quality is, and don't care. High fidelity is usually reserved for audiophiles.

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Personally, I can't understand why anyone needs anything better than 320kbps? FLAC and Wav files are huge, and short of sitting in front of a machine, do people honestly wince when they hear 'crappy quality' 320kbps mp3s?

Headphones are also important. I bought myself a pair of $155 Sennheisers in Tokyo once, but then I lost them at the station. But I then bought the next model down, (CX55) (using them as I type, now) and I think the sound is actually slightly better on these. I'm happy listening to my Beatport tracks and CDex ripped CDs at 320kbps. Sounds incredible to me.

It was actually crazy though, that in the same store, there were in-ear headphones at eye watering prices; $400 and up... can anyone honestly tell the difference between these quality headphones?

But I agree, iPods and their bundled headphones are crap. Period.

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Originally posted by notelfreak lets face it. to the majority of the people out there, music is something entirely disposable that is not even worth paying for. The preference of low bitrate mp3 is probably more because it can be grabbed faster and they can fit more on their mp3 players. most of them do not know what sound quality is, and don't care. High fidelity is usually reserved for audiophiles.

Yep.

The same applies for everything else in life. People just don't care.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

i am about to put out trance and prog that i played in 04/05

hellagay!

;P

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