MUSIC
Well,
everyone likes some kind of music...
For
some people, it is pop... For others, it is heavy metal, or hardcore...
Yet others delight in classical or country...
Two
of my favorite bands are The Church (an Australian
band) and Kraftwerk (a German founder of techno/industrial
music)
Both
of these bands are alive and still popular, but not to the mainstream
public. They are a very "acquired taste" that you will
either love or hate!
Now, with the development of a new compression/encoding method known as
MPEG Layer 3 Audio (MP3), CD quality music has
been reduced to 1/16TH its previous sized WAV
file, and with no loss of sound quality!
There are rumors to the contrary: that MP3 encoding strips all the
bass response. My belief is that you are hearing the sound quality
of the sound card, opposed to the digital quality. Don't Sony MiniDisc's
also employ compression with no loss of sound qualiry? I have uncompressed
MP3s back to WAVs and then burned them to CDs without any difference from
the original.
Any one care to shed a little light on this claim? I cannot hear
the difference, but I am not an audiophile!
And
there is the new compression of VQF... A better compression, but the licensed
property of Yamaha... But then MP3 compression is Fraunhauefer Labs...
Will it survive?
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