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15 minutes ago, wgscott said:

Compression and dynamic range limitation on analogue media is "musical."

 

Compression and dynamic range limitation, even to a much lesser extent, on digital media is a crime against civilization.

 

One thing Neil Young is very good at is summoning up some righteous anger.

 

Not always. NY is just like everyone else, he puts his pants on one leg at a time. Yo know the old saying about opinions......

 

Listen to some old Julie London LP's and tell me if you think analog range limitation and compression is good. On a decent system, it sounds like ass.

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57 minutes ago, wgscott said:

 

Sarcasm isn't your thing this morning?

 

Is it morning? I have been at work too long this morning.......

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12 minutes ago, wgscott said:

 

Sounds like Steve Jobs compressed your whole day.

 

Just crummy management.......

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1 hour ago, gmgraves said:

Of course, but there are those amongst us who believe that they hear artifacts even in lossless streaming/downloading technologies such as FLAC. I just wanted to be clear to everyone, that in spite of the controversy in some quarters surrounding the notion of lossless compression, that I’ve heard none from Auntie’s Proms “broadcasts” over the Internet, all the way from Ol’ Blighty!

 

If you can't measure, what are they hearing? It might be their sub-conscious adding in those artifacts. This is known to happen.

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1 hour ago, Rexp said:

On the contrary, why bother measuring when true audiophiles like Neil Young know THERE ARE NO MEASURING DEVICES CAPABLE OF DETECTING WHAT CAUSES MOST CD TO SOUND UTTER CRAP. 

 

Right - get a better CD player :D

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35 minutes ago, wgscott said:

 

At least he did the highly principled thing, and didn't sell any.

 

https://neilyoungarchives.com/

 

You can buy them here....

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21 minutes ago, crenca said:

 

@wgscotthumor can be rather dry 😉

 

Mine too - why I posted the link :D

 

I just had to. @wgscott might want to buy some. Good for scaring cats..... :D

 

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39 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

ok, how do you culture things with a dry wit?

 

You drink a lot of wit beer first, then switch to dry gin. 

 

Just an FYI.....

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18 minutes ago, Rexp said:

No but have you listened to the proms? 

Not a Mac or itunes person, why would I listen to AAC? No reason to. Prefer CD, FLAC or high-res depending.....

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13 minutes ago, esldude said:

It might make sense.  The BBC Proms already mentioned by Rexp are one example.  I listened to it, and my internet connection is so poor, it couldn't reliably manage the FLAC lossless streaming of those performances.  So AAC is one of the better moderate bitrate codecs to use.  They also supplied a 4 channel surround version using MPEG_DASH at 320 kbps.  I mentioned Opus which is to my knowledge the best low bitrate encoder.  It is nearly transparent at 96 kbps, and other than a few very edge cases is transparent at 128 kbps.  

 

Fortunately they've finally upgraded the internet where I live, and I can listen to FLAC.  

 

I listened to FLAC when I had DSL. To each their own :D

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