Re: Classical, Now Without the 300-Year Delay
- From: "Thornhill" <seth.levi@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 26 Mar 2006 22:00:35 -0800
Steven de Mena wrote:
And sound quality remains an
issue. "Lossless" technology, still in the wings, is expected to improve the
quality of the download itself. Unfortunately, it will require faster
Internet connections and download times longer than the two minutes or so it
now takes for a symphony. And the sound will still be more compressed than
that of a CD, let alone a Super Audio CD.
"The audiophiles are probably never going to be happy with digital download
sound," Mr. Evered of EMI said.
But Alexandre Vovan, the director of sales and communications for the
independent Canadian label Analekta, disagreed. "If classical music
listeners have been satisfied for years with the CD," he said, "then they
will be more than satisfied with the newer breeds of MP3 or its successors
in the near future."
They could do lossless sound right now by simply posting 16/44.1 wav
files. I don't think anyone will really care about the download time,
especially considering how many people have high speed connections.
Clearly the industry is resisting this -- probably due to piracy fears
-- if they're banking on "newer breeds of MP3" to solve the problem.
.
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