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I do enjoy it and enjoy it much more on quality analog format.
I can hear Miles Davis breath on vinyl, why can't I hear that on digitally remastered cd?
Listen top Stevie Ray on Little Wing, analog you can here his amp hum in the quieter passages, not on CD. Any idea how many harmonics are eliminated when they "clean it up"
There is a reason people who really like their music spend big money on turntables and tube 2 channel amps. Modern digital technology is simply not the best! Media and marketing just claim it is and people with no clue just accept it.
When I listen to music I actually sit down and listen, to all of it. It's a wonderful experience to really hear music in it's full tone and richness.
No point in argueing, you'll never understand what I'm talking about. Like explaining green to a blind person.
There are some new lossless digital formats on the horizon and becoming available, the file sizes are larger. There has to be some kind of logic behind this change away from the current format. The logic? Better sound quality maybe?
Lossless compressed audio formats
A lossless compressed format stores data in less space by eliminating unnecessary data.
Uncompressed audio formats encode both sound and silence with the same number of bits per unit of time. Encoding an uncompressed minute of absolute silence produces a file of the same size as encoding an uncompressed minute of music. In a lossless compressed format, however, the music would occupy a smaller portion of the file and the silence would take up almost no space at all.
Lossless compression formats enable the original uncompressed data to be recreated exactly. They include the common[5] FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, ALAC (Apple Lossless). They provide a compression ratio of about 2:1 (i.e. their files take up half the space of the originals). Development in lossless compression formats aims to reduce processing time while maintaining a good compression ratio.
[edit]Lossy compressed audio formats
Lossy compression enables even greater reductions in file size by removing some of the data. Lossy compression typically achieves far greater compression but somewhat reduced quality than lossless compression by simplifying the complexities of the data.[6] A variety of techniques are used, mainly by exploiting psychoacoustics, to remove data with minimal reduction in the quality of reproduction. For many everyday listening situations, the loss in data (and thus quality) is imperceptible. The popular MP3 format is probably the best-known example, but the AAC format found on the iTunes Music Store is also common. Most formats offer a range of degrees of compression, generally measured in bit rate. The lower the rate, the smaller the file and the more significant the quality loss.
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I can hear Miles Davis breath on vinyl, why can't I hear that on digitally remastered cd?
Listen top Stevie Ray on Little Wing, analog you can here his amp hum in the quieter passages, not on CD. Any idea how many harmonics are eliminated when they "clean it up"
There is a reason people who really like their music spend big money on turntables and tube 2 channel amps. Modern digital technology is simply not the best! Media and marketing just claim it is and people with no clue just accept it.
When I listen to music I actually sit down and listen, to all of it. It's a wonderful experience to really hear music in it's full tone and richness.
No point in argueing, you'll never understand what I'm talking about. Like explaining green to a blind person.
There are some new lossless digital formats on the horizon and becoming available, the file sizes are larger. There has to be some kind of logic behind this change away from the current format. The logic? Better sound quality maybe?
Lossless compressed audio formats
A lossless compressed format stores data in less space by eliminating unnecessary data.
Uncompressed audio formats encode both sound and silence with the same number of bits per unit of time. Encoding an uncompressed minute of absolute silence produces a file of the same size as encoding an uncompressed minute of music. In a lossless compressed format, however, the music would occupy a smaller portion of the file and the silence would take up almost no space at all.
Lossless compression formats enable the original uncompressed data to be recreated exactly. They include the common[5] FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, ALAC (Apple Lossless). They provide a compression ratio of about 2:1 (i.e. their files take up half the space of the originals). Development in lossless compression formats aims to reduce processing time while maintaining a good compression ratio.
[edit]Lossy compressed audio formats
Lossy compression enables even greater reductions in file size by removing some of the data. Lossy compression typically achieves far greater compression but somewhat reduced quality than lossless compression by simplifying the complexities of the data.[6] A variety of techniques are used, mainly by exploiting psychoacoustics, to remove data with minimal reduction in the quality of reproduction. For many everyday listening situations, the loss in data (and thus quality) is imperceptible. The popular MP3 format is probably the best-known example, but the AAC format found on the iTunes Music Store is also common. Most formats offer a range of degrees of compression, generally measured in bit rate. The lower the rate, the smaller the file and the more significant the quality loss.
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