[LAU] How bad is mp3/ogg

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:00:02PM -0400, S. Massy wrote:

> That's not necessarily surprising and has less to do with actual quality
> of reproduction than with comfort. Many of us who grew up with
> LPs and tapes had difficulty adapting to digitally reprroduced music (I
> confess I still get a warm fuzzy feeling with listening to a very
> slightly worn vinyl record). So, can we really be surprised that people
> who probably have been listening to MP3 encoded music since the age of
> ten or younger feel a degree of discomfort or alienness when listening
> to uncompressed audio? 

There's another dimension to it: most of today's popular music
exists *only* in its recorded form, there's no 'real' version
to compare with. This goes as far as a live performance being
expected to sound like the mp3. And even in classical music,
some people are now expecting the reverb in a concert hall to
come mainly from the front.

Ciao,

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FA