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?

 


THIS PAGE WAS LAST UPDATED 05/02/99