"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Paul" wrote in message
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In my view, anything that attempts to kill off that pervasive disease
that is .mp3 must be good.

"The $1,999 (£1,079) player is aimed at people who encode music using
so-called lossless formats, such as Flac or Wav."

I have no idea what Flac is but .wav is not encoded (it is a bit for bit
digital copy) and therefore lossless. It is raw data (isn't it?).

"Audiophiles are investing a lot of money to rip their files at more than
simple 128kbps MP3."

Are they? I wouldn't have thought so. Surely an audiophile would want to
remain in the digital domain as far as possible.



They would??

Yes they would, but I suspect your definition of 'audiophile' differs from
mine
Now, without having any desire to be argumentative, I see little evidence of
'audiophile' activity in this ng.
I closely link 'audiophile' with 'Hi-Fidelity'. While I am not having a go
(and will not be drawn into a senseless slanging match so much favoured
here), there is no evidence of any interest in Hi-FI.
It appears to me that this ng is for those with an interest in audio
hardware as a hobby. Absolutely nothing wrong with that but, as far as I am
concerned, this is not the pursuit of an audiophile. An audiophile is only
interested in Hi-Fi. End of story. He/she has not the least interest in how
it is achieved (while wearing their audiophile hat).

Ask all the 'I hate vinyl, but I prefer FM' audiophiles here! :-)
Sorry, I had a late night! I have no idea what you are getting at! However,
when I come across a sentence (in an audio context) containing the word
'vinyl' I know I need read no further.

Anyway, WTF is MP3 if not in the 'digital domain'.....???
Sorry again. That's my fault. Yes it is digital. However, my reference to
'digital domain' refers to pure audio data.
As I'm sure you will know, MP3 is about as removed from pure audio data as
you can get and still have (some) data. Microsoft Word is in the digital
domain but you wouldn't sit and listen to it (would you?) so why assault
your ears with MP3 crap?

Paul