John Rumm wrote:
On 28/04/2014 19:37, R. Mark Clayton wrote:
"gremlin_95" wrote in message
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On 28/04/2014 13:14, John Williamson wrote:
On 28/04/2014 09:59, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 01:40:04 +0100, Johny B Good wrote:

I regard not only CD as pre-historic but DVD and Blu-Ray[1] too. It's
not that that makes me feel old, just the effects of old age creeping
up on me.

Presumably old age is having its normal affect on hearing and sight
so you don't notice how crap downloads and/or streaming are compared
to CD or Blu-Ray (or even DVD come to that). B-)

What worries *me* is that many teenagers are of the opinion that
downloads are better quality than CDs.

Even at my age, I can tell the difference, even on earbuds and small
screens.


There must be something wrong with me then because I can't really tell the
difference

Ditto - originally I thought MP3's were inferior [to CD] because they were
not lossless compression (like zip), however for most purposes you really
can't hear the difference.

I find it really depends on the bit rate of the MP3 and the quality of
the encoder. 128kbps MP3s clearly sound inferior to CDs to me. 360kpbs
however is very much closer.

(I rip all my discs to flac just to be on the safe side ;-)

I've ripped all my CDs to lossless as well (WMA as it happens), because
I'm not in the habit of throwing potentially useful information away.

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Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England