CDs or MP3s ?

[BlueKnight]

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120204/BUSINESS06/302040018/Music-lovers-pursue-return-high-fidelit

An interesting article.
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Mike

[Jeddy]

"I'm finding that I have a little bit of trouble with the quality of the sound of music today," Young said. "I don't like it. It just makes me angry. Not the quality of the music, but we're in the 21st century and we have the worst sound that we've ever had. It's worse than a 78 [rpm record]. Where are our geniuses? What happened?" Young argued that MP3s feature only 5 percent of the data from an original master file, which he sees as a major problem.

"If you're an artist and you created something and you knew the master was 100 percent great, but the consumer got 5 percent, would you be feeling good?" he asked. "I like to point that out to artists. That's why people listen to music differently today. It's all about the bottom and the beat driving everything, and that's because in the resolution of the music, there's nothing else you can really hear. The warmth and the depth at the high end is gone."
--- NEIL YOUNG

[BlueKnight]

Which begs the question as to why one would spend a lot of money on expensive state of the art components to download and play a mediocre music source.
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Mike

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