n00b questions about ipods and linux (fedora 6 and 7)

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jan 13 04:37:40 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 23:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 12 January 2008, Craig White wrote:
> >> That's listening through some decent Beyer or Sennheiser headphones, and
> >> through some rather nice Wharfedale bookshelf speakers and a 0.001%
> >> distortion stereo amplifier.  Not ludicrously expensive gear, just
> >> modest home HiFi gear (apart from the Beyer headsets - they're a second
> >> hand professional set, I don't go around buying $400+ headests as a
> >> rule).
> >
> >----
> >using a professional headset to listen to compressed/lossy music is sort of
> > absurd to begin with isn't it?
> 
> One thing is for sure, he, unless he's got tin ears, will most certainly be 
> able to hear the quite considerable difference between mp3's and ogg's.  At 
> Q7 ogg's or 192k mp3's, the difference is plainly audible to these 73 year 
> old ears.  In favor of Ogg's obviously. But then I have Carhart Notches 120+ 
> db deep too.  Wore out too many rifle barrels at the shooting bench before I 
> discovered ear muffs.
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It doesn't take much in terms of speakers to tell the difference though.
I would hardly call the ear buds that Apple supplies with their iPods as
high quality reproduction and I can hear the difference between 128 bit
mp3 and 128 bit aac. I don't use mp3 at all (though I could up the
sampling rate I know).
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> 
> >That's sort of like Starbucks using treated effluent to brew a Caramel
> > Macchiato.
> 
> By golly, he does have a sense of humor!
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ssshhhh - don't let on

Craig




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