A writer for a local paper (Newsday) wrote about playing some mp3 cds
through his home stereo. He was surprised by how BAD they sounded. I'm
glad someone finally put it in print.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu" <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 12:37 PM
Subject: OT: mp3 was Re: [OM] negative films, minilabs, etc.........
> Yeah, with their intellect they "think" mp3 is good enough. But guess
what? They don't spend much time in front of the music
> because it doesn't "captivate" their attention.
>
> There's more to music than what the intellect perceives and my low-end CD
playback comes up short in the "captivating" category.
> Stereophile has been writing about this for decades.
>
> Until you've heard a grand piano from 4 feet away you haven't heard a
piano. Until you've heard a rock band when everyone's plugged
> into their OWN AMP, you haven't heard a rock band. Until you've put
freshly ground black pepper on your dinner, you haven't had
> black pepper.
>
> Lama
> ps, "Why, I'll tell ya. When I was a boy....."
>
>
> From: "Danrich" <danrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > In the past, live music was the best and still is then come vinyl
> > records, then we settled for CD's, now the young and uninformed think
> > Mpeg 3 is great sound, NOT!
> > Same goes for seeing the real thing to film, to digital being the way to
> > go, NOT!
>
>
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