[Eeyore]

Scott Dorsey wrote:

Ben Bradley wrote:
02:56:49 +0000, Eeyore wrote:
geoff wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
Industrial One wrote:

What do you guys think? Will there be a successor to the current
state- of-the-art AAC codec, or do people not give a damn about
compression no more since FLACs and high-bitrate MP3s nowadays
download in less than a minute even in ****ty 3rd world countries?

There's a recent story on Slashdut. A professor has done tests of
college students with MP3 of various bitrates vs. uncompressed audio,
and most students nowadays PREFER the 128k MP3 sound:

Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/11/153205

Of course, because this is what they are used to listening to. The problem
is that we have a generation or more of people who have never heard live
acoustic music and have no idea what 'realism' is. And if you don't have
that touchstone, you can't really evaluate anything.

Never mind they've deafened themselves with constant listening via earbuds.

Graham