GraB <> wrote in
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> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:11:00 +1300, steve <>
> wrote:
>
>>There you have it.
>>
>>Competing companies with proprietary offerings result in the consumer
>>losing out.
>>
>>So the consumer by-passes the marketing-imposed bloackage.
>>
>>These companies pursue their interests...and consumers respond in
>>kind.
>>
>>Predictable. Inevitable.
>>
>>http://www.usatoday.com/tech/product...usic-war_x.htm
>
> Yes, it makes you want to walk away from it all, doesn't it?
>
> A hifi shop manager told me that all these MP3 players have been bad
> in the sense that people don't know how the music is meant to sound.
> They only ever hear low bit-rate music on their cheap players and
> think that is it. I recently heard such playing through a pair of
> high quality speakers and it sounded awful, well below what the
> speakers were capable of.
So how is this different from the previous situation where people listen to
music on a $5.95 radio and don't know how the music is meant to sound? Or
for that matter when people used tape players with dolby hiss reduction
that meant that all the higher frequencies were lost.
A while ago I tested the speakers built into my LCD monitor, I preferred
the sound from my $600 computer speakers - especially when using the
optical connection from my PC.
El Cheapo equipment has always given poor results and quality equipment has
always sounded so much better. Low bitrate music on cheap MP3 players is
no worse than other forms of cheap music players.
Generally I use 160k or better when playing music on my computer or from
MP3 CDs in my car. I can't tell the difference between playing an audio CD
and a good 192K MP3.
--
Mark Heyes (New Zealand)
See my pics at
www.gigatech.co.nz (last updated 27-May-06)
"The person on the other side was a young woman. Very obviously a
young woman. There was no possible way she could have been mistaken
for a young man in any language, especially Braille."
Maskerade
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