Re: mp3's and Krabber

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Matthew Collins wrote:

> >just changing the encoder. bladeenc is supposed to be useful, although
> >I've never tried it - MP3 is too poor quality for my hi-fi ears, I'm
> >afraid!!
> You ought to try BladeEnc at at least 256K compression. I can't tell the
> difference between that and my CD's.

It's not immediately obvious, I grant you. At first, you have to really
strain to tell the difference. And then you hear the difference. You hear
a kind of swishing, swirly sound. And that's it - every time you hear an
MP3, it's there, and it's **so** annoying!! My advice - don't try to
listen for the difference, unless you want to dump all your MP3's...

> Mind you, I only have an old HK6100
> Amp. I'm waiting for Aureel to update the Linux drivers for the Vortex 2
> sound card. Then I can get a DAC box, and have MP3 via Fibre to my
> stereo system, without having to go through the sub-standard DAC and
> Connections (not to mention all the noise) inside my computer.

Agreed, PC's aren't well known for great sound. The best I've heard was a
friend of mine with a Turtle Beach - sounded fairly good. I find the
digital signals from computers tend to be a bit messy too, I can often
hear the difference there too. :( Damn my ears..

> >(See that CD player in the advert? You know, 'Uugh, they split coffee on
> >it!'. That's the Linn CD-12, that is. It's worth 12 grand. I had one for a
> >day once. They're sweet ;) Esp. with Linn Klimax poweramps.. )
>
> No, It's not worth 12 grand. That's how much it costs :)

Well, if you can sell it for 12G's, it's pretty much worth that.. although
I don't pretend for one second that they sell many ;)) I'd certainly never
pay that sort of money for a CD player - you can get a Linn LP12 from
around 2 grand, I think, and vinyl at that price sounds *way* better than
CD. Just more musical..

Cheers,

Alex.


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