OT: Buying an iPod in Toronto: recommendations please

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:20:13PM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Unless you've spent $500+ on a good set of cans, or $1000+ on speakers, 
> and more on an amp, I challenge anyone to discern the difference 
> between an mp3 at 192kbps, or an ogg at q7.
 
Depends on the material and who is doing the listening.  But yes it
would probably require decent headphones/speakers to tell.

> I recall someone on a list arguing that they could tell the difference 
> between an uncompressed flac and the original wav file, even though the 
> md5sum of both was identical.

Unrelated really, and just plain stupid.  Which part of lossless did
they not understand?  Did they think using zip on the wave file made a
difference too?

> What I'm saying I guess, is that for the most part, it's all in people's 
> heads...

Often yes, but not always.  Certainly the quality of the speakers and
amplifier probably matter a lot more than that mp3/aac/whatever.  On the
other hand 64kbps MP3 will probably sound bad no matter what.

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