"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , David Looser
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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , David Looser
wrote:


Nobody is ditching CDs in favour of downloads because they think
downloads have better fidelity,

Well, it may be that *some* people are switching to downloads to get
96k/24bit (or similar) LPCM because they regard that as "better
fidelity" than CD. How often they would be right to think this is
another matter...
:-)

And how many downloads are avaiable in LPCM at all, let alone 96k/24bit?

No idea. Clearly non-zero, though. Or is your objection that FLAC, for
example, isn't LPCM when downloaded?

Erm... How many people did you mean by "nobody"? Or was your real point
that no-one (you know of) is discarding any CDs once they have a
downloaded
'high rez' sic LPCM version? You don't actually say which (or all) CDs
you mean.

Or were you simply assuming a 'download' meant a low-rate mp3, and
forgetting the existence of high rate/depth LPCM downloads? That was the
impression you comment gave to me.


OK, Jim - you win!

As far as I am aware the overwhelming majority of downloads available are of
compressed mp3s, whilst the proportion of downloads available in better than
CD quality is minute. Furthermore, whilst there has been much said in the
media about the change of music buying habits in the direction of
downloading, the suggestion that downloaders might be motivated by a
disatisfation with the audio quality of CDs has never, to my knowledge, been
made.

So I withdraw "nobody" and substitute "hardly anybody". Will that satisfy
you?

David.