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Puzzled WHY compressing music damages the sound.,
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<blockquote data-quote="Tim McCulloch" data-source="post: 209412" data-attributes="member: 67"><p>Ubiquity for one, and the propensity of the public to use one noun for multiple, different things that *appear to the public* to be the same. Think "Xerox" and how it became a verb "Xeroxing 25 copies for your presentation" and how to the public any form of photocopying was called Xerox.</p><p></p><p>But unlike photocopies if you ask for an MP3, that's what you'll get.</p><p></p><p>The other reason is that consumers don't know, don't care and certainly will not be driving any form of "change" regarding music reproduction quality. Why? Because they don't know how music is supposed to sound. With "mastered for stuffing in your earbuds", there is precious little dynamic range in pop music forms as delivered to the consumer. They don't listen to music on a sophisticated audio system at home, in a controlled environment - only from the $5 buds that come with their phones. Since they've never heard reverb tales or the natural decay of an instrument sound or vocal they won't hear the CODEC doing its loss-based work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tim McCulloch, post: 209412, member: 67"] Ubiquity for one, and the propensity of the public to use one noun for multiple, different things that *appear to the public* to be the same. Think "Xerox" and how it became a verb "Xeroxing 25 copies for your presentation" and how to the public any form of photocopying was called Xerox. But unlike photocopies if you ask for an MP3, that's what you'll get. The other reason is that consumers don't know, don't care and certainly will not be driving any form of "change" regarding music reproduction quality. Why? Because they don't know how music is supposed to sound. With "mastered for stuffing in your earbuds", there is precious little dynamic range in pop music forms as delivered to the consumer. They don't listen to music on a sophisticated audio system at home, in a controlled environment - only from the $5 buds that come with their phones. Since they've never heard reverb tales or the natural decay of an instrument sound or vocal they won't hear the CODEC doing its loss-based work. [/QUOTE]
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