Colin Soames wrote:
good enough to fool the 'Golden Ears Brigade' representative


IMHO, at least with classical music, the processing of MP3 makes the music
fatiguing and unsatisfactory when listening for any period of time ( 30
mins) even if you can't 'instantly' tell which is which. I've been using
.flac and .ace for classical rips.

I always found mp3s less stressful to listen to, perhaps partly because
my audio processing is odd and I seem to hear 'everything' without being
able to process it all and seperate it. mp3 often removes the 'chaff' so
perhaps in my case the processing I lack is made up for by the mp3
lossiness.

Interesting how people process audio in different ways.

Sometimes I wonder if its why a high number of aspies are 'hifi
obsessives' since weird audio processing seems to be common among us.