[John Williamson]

On 27/02/2017 14:41, wrote:
Mike Rivers wrote: "
Because that's what most people listen to, or worse. You aren't "most
people," so you don't have anything to complain about. But the
proverbial "most people" are still downloading MP3 or streaming, and, in
fact, "most people" aren't complaining about the sound quality of what
they're hearing. Those who are concerned with sound know, or can learn,
what they can do to improve it. But most are satisfied with the sound
and love the convenience. "


I still maintain that processing done in mastering
has a far more audible effect on a piece than
encoding it to a lossy format 1/3rd to 1/5th of the
original file size.

This may be true, but decisions made in mastering were (hopefully) made
while listening to a decent set of monitors, so should represent exactly
what the artiste/ engineer/ producer wanted the listeners to hear.

This result is then fed into a data compression unit, what comes out is
not what went in (Cymbals and percussion tend to suffer most), and may
not represent what the production team envisaged. Many listeners either
buy the CD and rip it to whatever size fits their available storage and
listen to it on cheap earbuds or just download it from a pirate site,
which may be a 128kbs mp3 which has been processed from a 64kbps file on
a really bad site with storage problems. A very few listeners in a
domestic situation can tell the difference, and they are the ones that
complain about it.

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Tciao for Now!

John.