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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 04:24:14PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
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<pre wrap="">As I mentioned in another note, the better headphones will only make it
easier to hear the distortion. You cannot hear better than what the
source provides, no matter how good the equipment. It's physically
impossible. MP3's work by removing a lot of the "unnecessary" sounds in
the original. With proper listening conditions, you can hear that
difference. Once that music has been compressed, the result is already
more different from the original than any difference good quality
equipment is likely to reproduce. If you're talking about CD quality or
better, then perhaps better phones will help.
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No, the better head phones just won't add to the distorsion. The only
reason you can't hear that the MP3 sounds slightly worse than a CD is
because your crappy headphones already do far more damage to the sound
than the MP3 did. Good headphones let you hear everyting that is there,
while crappy headphones won't let you hear everything properly so you
simply loose a bunch of the music no matter what you are listening to.
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Perhaps we're having a language problem, but when have I ever suggested
using crappy headphones??? My point has always been that good
headphones are already better than MP3 sound and getting even better
headphones will not create any benefit, because the sound quality from
an MP3 is simply not their to begin with. Headphones cannot take a
distorted signal and make it better. They can only faithfully
reproduce what ever is presented to them. If that includes significant
distortion, as MP3's do, then they will reproduce that distortion.
Claiming otherwise is to ignore reality.<br>
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