Re: 5 Things AppleTV needs to be a MUST BUY by Apple Gazette

[LuKreme]

On 7-Apr-2007, at 07:50, Charlton Wilbur wrote:
> Artifacts of compression are pretty easy to hear, but the quality  
> of the recording is only one factor in the quality of the music,  
> and a not very important one at that.  All other things being  
> equal, yes, a well-encoded audio track is preferable to a poorly- 
> encoded one, but all other things are rarely equal.

Good point.  I'd rather listen to my scratchy Billie Holiday (record  
from vinyl to audio cassette in the 70's and capped to a digital copy  
in the 90's, probably after at least five or six cassette  
generations) with all its pops and hisses than to the new Bratney  
Spores CD.

And even if I had the Verve recordings on CD, those are still mono  
recordings which have been digitally 'cleaned' to remove the effects  
of age on the master tapes.  Hopefully that is all they removed, but  
does it sound like you are sitting in the audience?  Unlikely.

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