[Audio Empire]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:56:36 -0700, jwvm wrote
(in article ):

On Sep 25, 1:17=A0pm, "Edmund" wrote:

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I want to propose to all of us to call these reduction scheme's
what it is
"DATA/INFORMATION =A0REDUCTION"
OTOH "compression" is lossless per definition! the weird name
like
lossless compression is forced to us by smart crooked sales
people.

There is nothing wrong with compression like ZIP; RAR or FLAC
and everything wrong with data/information reduction like MP3

Really? Good luck on your next mobile phone call if you don't want to
use lossy encoding.

Irrelevant. There is a difference between INTELLIGIBILITY and quality. In a
cell phone only intelligibility of the voice is important, in music, it's
the quality (at least that's what SHOULD be important to anyone who would
have interest in posting to this NG) that determines listening pleasure to
those of us who consider ourselves audio enthusiasts.


Do DVD movies sound terrible because they also use
lossy encoding.?

Actually, yes. But again, intelligibility of the dialog is the overriding
concern in movies as well. Turn off the video, turn off the lights, turn up
the Dolby Digital or DTS digital soundtrack and listen attentively to the
symphonic score for any recent movie that has that type of score, and tell me
how it sounds. You don't notice it while watching the movie, because in human
sensory perception, the eye takes precedence.

You would appear to be in a very small minority since
most listeners seem to have at least some tolerance for this
technology.

Yes, that minority is called "audio enthusiasts" and to that minority sound
quality is important. The fact that it is not important to the large majority
of people in this world who listen to music is as irrelevant as telling a
gourmand that his willingness to spend $300-$500 on a single meal is not
shared by the average "Joe" who eats from the MacDonalds "dollar menu". Well,
DUH! 8^)