On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:48:32 +0000, Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

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There's a slight catch in your argument, in that even 128kb/sec MP3 has
better sound quality than vinyl................

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There speaks an mp3 expert.... with cloth ears.... :-)

Have you actually *heard* 128kb/s mp3s? The only way that they score over
vinyl is in the lack of surface noise - and you can learn to largely
ignore that on vinyl. You can *never* really ignore the overall crap sound
quality of 128kb/s mp3s though. It just grates. I use 128kb/s mp3 on
my pocket player simply because it produces a reasonably small file size
that (sort of) works on music. Anything less than that should be relegated
to speech only.

IMHO mp3s only start to get listenable at 192kb/s. Now, if you'd care to
argue about 256kb/s mp3 versus vinyl the playing field is more level.... ;-)

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