On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 23:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 12 January 2008, Craig White wrote: > >> That's listening through some decent Beyer or Sennheiser headphones, and > >> through some rather nice Wharfedale bookshelf speakers and a 0.001% > >> distortion stereo amplifier. Not ludicrously expensive gear, just > >> modest home HiFi gear (apart from the Beyer headsets - they're a second > >> hand professional set, I don't go around buying $400+ headests as a > >> rule). > > > >---- > >using a professional headset to listen to compressed/lossy music is sort of > > absurd to begin with isn't it? > > One thing is for sure, he, unless he's got tin ears, will most certainly be > able to hear the quite considerable difference between mp3's and ogg's. At > Q7 ogg's or 192k mp3's, the difference is plainly audible to these 73 year > old ears. In favor of Ogg's obviously. But then I have Carhart Notches 120+ > db deep too. Wore out too many rifle barrels at the shooting bench before I > discovered ear muffs. ---- It doesn't take much in terms of speakers to tell the difference though. I would hardly call the ear buds that Apple supplies with their iPods as high quality reproduction and I can hear the difference between 128 bit mp3 and 128 bit aac. I don't use mp3 at all (though I could up the sampling rate I know). ---- > > >That's sort of like Starbucks using treated effluent to brew a Caramel > > Macchiato. > > By golly, he does have a sense of humor! ---- ssshhhh - don't let on Craig
