Re: OTish what's going to happen to HiFi?

"Rob" <mr_horton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> With everyone downloading their music in crappy compressed MP3 format,
> has the desire for audio quality/HiFi been lost. Surely you would want
> uncompressed files of your music (like a CD) for permanent storage of
> your music producing MP3's only when needed. Should be using Ogg Vorbis
> anyway.
>

Fair point, but I think these days, good quality MP3s are high enough
quality (not perfect I agree) for the majority of people to accept the sound
quality/convenience play-off. The whole point of MP3s is surely to reduce
the need for huge stacks of CDs, and to record most peoples record
collection in uncompressed format would be impractical. That said, over the
next few years, if storage continues to increase in size and reduce in cost
at the current rates, at some point, maybe compressing the music will become
less important?

At the moment though, considering the momentum behind MP3 I'm now not sure
how well alternative file formats are going to fare in the mainstream
market.

To be honest, I would argue that with most 'normal' (as opposed to
audiophile) home stereo equipment, and certainly portable players and car
stereos, most people would be hard-pressed to tell if the source was a CD or
MP3 anyway...
<that should put the cat amongst the pigeons...> ;-)

Chris.


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