[geeks] 32 Gig 1.6" SCA drives......

[Sridhar the POWERful]

But what bitrate MP3 are you talking about?

Peace...  Sridhar

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 14:52:47 -0400
> From: Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
> Reply-To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] 32 Gig 1.6" SCA drives......
>
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 07:40:47PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:17:00AM -0400, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> >
> > > I have MP3's that don't have a measurable difference from the original.
> >
> > Methinks you mean an audible difference.  If you look at the resulting
> > wave-forms, I assure you it'd be a very measurable difference :-)
> >
> > I encode MP3s at 192kbps.  That, to me, is not audibly different from the
> > original CD when played through the tiny speakers that came with my Cube.
>
> I listen to music commonly through a few sources.  I have a pair of radio
> shack wrap around the back of the head headphones.  I've never tried
> listening to MP3s through these.  These are usually connected to either my
> work notebook, or my portable CD player.  Very durable in my experience so
> far.  Sound decent, but lack bass.
>
> I also have a pair of radio shack enclosed ear headphones.  They are hooked
> to a Turtle Beach sound card.  They sound pretty good.  One can hear the
> difference between MP3s and DAE playing CDs in FreeAmp.
>
> I also use a more or less generic pair of flat speakers on my sisters
> computer.  One cannot tell the difference between audio CD and MP3 on this,
> but either way it just sounds bad.  Not as bad as the tiny labtecs she used
> to have though.
>
> I also use a pair of Altec Lansing speakers hooked to a SB Live card.  Hear
> one can particularly sense the difference between MP3s (up to 256k at least)
> versus CDs or FLAC files.  CDs are played via a direct digital audio
> connection between the DVD-Rom (a Ricoh, and absolutely hideous brand to be
> avoided) and sound card.
>
> I tried to play MP3s on my Apex DVD player, connected to a 70s stereo
> connected to a set of Sony surround speakers (two surround speakers, and a
> combined signal being fed to a center chanel speaker, also from Sony).  But,
> I couldn't convince the unit to play MP3s.  CDs sound decent.  I'd like to
> get better speakers and a seperate DAC here though.
>
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
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