Excellent work by Ryan letting you hear an approximation of what they are removing from MP3 files when doing “lossy” compression.
This is what the MP3 programmers deem unimportant in your music. You can play the video with it’s own … Read the rest
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Pure Sound Quality
Quality:
- GoodMusic as MP3 = sounds pretty good – get your jam on!
- GoodMusic as 16bit FLAC or CD = sounds better – damn listen to that bass! – time to dance – pure and clean and timeless
- GoodMusic as
Bring On The Competition
Can’t wait for that Pono?
Can’t handle the power of the triangle?
Here’s the Fiio X1 finally available in the US at around $100, and that ain’t too much to pay for some serious hi-res music playback. Pono’s are gonna … Read the rest
Walkman IV – The Return of Fidelity
Let’s take a trip down memory lane:
[deep ominous movie trailer chord]
Walkman 1 (1980) – by Sony – stereo cassette – 2 headphone jacks – powered by 2 AA batteries for runtime of 20 hours.
Walkman … Read the rest
Audio Mythology
See if you agree with any of these:… Read the rest
Music Hoarding Future
OK I’m doing some serious internet-style scientific research (aka asking friends) on the future of buying music, discussed in this post. Here’s a few ideas so far on the future of music product packaging:
Idea 1- The “All of … Read the rest
Buying Musical Product – What Do You Want?
So the CD is dead, the mp3 is going nowhere fast, everyone seems to stream or listen to their mp3 libraries, the HD Digital files are just starting to gain traction, and analog records keeps chugging along towards their 100th … Read the rest
40 Years of Recorded Music Distribution
Quick history lesson —
Digital audio made it’s public debut with the CD standard known as “RedBook”, started in 1978. A collaboration between Phillips & Sony, the CD standard was originally going to be 14bit/40k with error correction and ship … Read the rest
A New Audio Era
High Fidelity Audio Enters The Digital Age – SlashdotRighteous Audio – Finally!
I love knowing I’m not alone in my rants. I have been complaining about digital audio compromises since the 80’s, and now, finally, a product is coming for people like me. It’s called “Pono” (Hawaiian for ‘righteous’) and its basically … Read the rest
The Challenge of Uncompressed Audio Formats
Good overview of the situation I’m heavily interested in (see “Save the Audio” section) – the battle between quality audio and convenient audio. Since the late 90’s most of us have accepted worse-sounding audio in the name of convenience, whether … Read the rest
Save The Music One Hertz At A Time
OK I have been listening to mp3’s for about 15 years now, and I have to say I’m ready for the next digital format. I want 96k minimum range (192k preferred) so it almost sounds as good as my albums. … Read the rest
I Support Pono
I love this idea.
Neil Young finally got his wish to attempt to restore audio fidelity to our lives. They are calling the thing Pono and most of the press reports on it present it as a battle with … Read the rest
Better 3 Years Late Than Never?
The music industry, ever pro-active and cutting edge, has finally decided to try and sell music in a digital file format.
I have heard some good and many bad things about this new scheme (mainly that it won’t do much … Read the rest
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