Loftprojection
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You have to understand that for some people quality is more enjoyable than quantity. I have a good collection of CDs (around 500) and I've stopped trying to always buy more and more because I now get more enjoyment in listening to what I have over and over but at the same time improving the way the albums sound by increasing the quality of the equipment I own. I much prefer buying a $200 interconnect cable if it raises my sound quality than $200 of CDs on amazon that I will listen to only a few times because they don't sound that grest.
It's basically two different way of thinking. I basically see two different trends, the young people tend to be "downloaders" of quantity, they seem to have a never ending passion to have more and more new songs on their hard drive and the older people tend to have a never ending passion for higher and higher quality of sound constantly buying and upgrading their equipment.
So bottom line, it's probably similar with lossless versus lossy. The group that values quality doesn't care about size, if flac or even .wav is proven superior, even if it is negligeable, that group will strongly promote that. On the other hand, the group that values quantity will be promoting it's position based mostly on the fact that there is not difference in sound, which can be true on cheaper equipment but not necessarily if played of higher end equipment.
Anyway, that's my view on it.
Cheers.
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It's basically two different way of thinking. I basically see two different trends, the young people tend to be "downloaders" of quantity, they seem to have a never ending passion to have more and more new songs on their hard drive and the older people tend to have a never ending passion for higher and higher quality of sound constantly buying and upgrading their equipment.
So bottom line, it's probably similar with lossless versus lossy. The group that values quality doesn't care about size, if flac or even .wav is proven superior, even if it is negligeable, that group will strongly promote that. On the other hand, the group that values quantity will be promoting it's position based mostly on the fact that there is not difference in sound, which can be true on cheaper equipment but not necessarily if played of higher end equipment.
Anyway, that's my view on it.
Cheers.
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| Originally Posted by spaceconvoy And I'm talking about sound quality from a music-lover's point of view (that is the whole point, right?) When are spatial/monetary/real world contraints ever not an issue? Only when you listen to music on your computer at home. I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I move around a lot during the day, and my mp3 player has become my permanent source. So yeah, I definitely choose lossy over lossless mostly because of spatial constraints (of course I have backup DVDs of my music collection saved in flac in case I need to re-encode or something). But even if all my music did fit on my player in flac, I would still probably choose lossy, because it would allow for greater expansion of my collection in the future. That is to say, I would choose whatever the lowest bitrate file that sounds just as good as cd quality with my equipment, in order to have more room for music. Read this thread - I find it amazing that people who spend so much money on audio equipment can still consider the Flaming Lips, Mouse on Mars, or Devendra Banhart undiscoved gems. It's pretty obvious that most people here spend more time/money trying out new equipment than new music. IMHO, spending $200 on an order from Amazon is always a much better investment for your system than a $200 cable. And of course, having the extra harddrive space because you encode to lossy only helps you appreciate more new music. Basically, you're completely missing the whole point of audio/music/life in general. It's about enrichment, not perfection. |
