"Paul" wrote in message
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"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


Probably....


Now, without having any desire to be argumentative, I see little evidence
of 'audiophile' activity in this ng.


OK, so it's not looking *all* bad then...?? :-)


I closely link 'audiophile' with 'Hi-Fidelity'.


I've no idea, but I suspect there's a few here who would take issue with
that....


While I am not having a go
(and will not be drawn into a senseless slanging match so much favoured
here),


Why not? You might enjoy it! ;-)


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).


No, you lost me there....



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.


And yet you did....??

;-)

See:



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?


Er, because you're sitting on a bus and the turntable keeps sliding off your
lap....???

OK. Lemme relieve you of some of your burden....

There are some people in this world who like to eat caterpillars - great big
4 and 5 inch buggers! (They whirl them round smartly to flick the poo out of
'em first, I gather!) Anyway, I hafta say I'm not tempted myself, but they
say they love 'em and some say they prefer them to Macdonalds, they think
they are *better*!

I say *fine* - chow down and enjoy!!

:-)

It takes all sorts and the world would be a poorer place without them -
likewise, take the vinylphiles (me) out of this group and it'll be nobbut
DBTs, 'DAB stinks' and Cable Wars all the way....

Is that what you would like?