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A quote from Neil: (from the Boing Boing site) "The compressed, hollow sound of free streaming music was a big step down from the CD and a huge step down from vinyl." "We are poisoning ourselves with degraded sound. The development of our brains is led by our senses; take away too many of the necessary cues, and we are trapped inside a room with no doors or windows. Substituting smoothed-out algorithms for the contingent complexity of biological existence is bad for us." "Engineers often responded to the smaller size and lower quality of these packages by using cheap engineering tricks like masking the softer parts of the song as loud as the loudest parts. This flattened out the sound of recording and fooled listeners's brains into ignoring the stuff that wasn't there anymore" (MQA?) And further: "It is an insult to the human mind and the human soul" I can't argue with Neil. Plastic nano particles are in the rain and in the snow, no fish is plastic free, governments are worthless. Hate is ascendant, big insurance companies have tame police forces chasing "insurance fraud", people actually purchase surveillance devices and place them in their homes. Right wing dictators cut down the rain forest. And now we know why, low rez compressed music has destroyed our brains.