I don't think that mp3, even at the highest rate of 320kb, would be able to keep all of the compressed information of a DTS wave straight. I go all over the web and several newsgroups and have never seen DTS in mp3. The mp3 file would be too much of a loss in file quality.john e. bogus said:"Are there places where I can get info on dts/quad transfers in mp3 format?"
Why would you even want to? MP3 is a "lossy" compression format....the musical information is digitized, then a portion of that data thrown away to make the file size smaller....not recommended for any type of high fidelity audio use. What's your application? There's probably a much better way to accomplish your goal....
Yours Truly,
john e. bogus
blackbirdr said:CD's were the work of the devil. The MP3 is the work of the devil times 3. Analog is king. Suround sound is the only reason to listen to digital.
sspsandy said:I think where mp3s got a bad rap is the ease with which people were able to use file sharing software to make virtually everything free and downloadable from the net. I never had an interest in it since I primarily collect lps, and my computer is separate from my audio setup. I can see how being able to listen to sample of a band on their website makes this format worthy, perhaps you will go out and buy their album. And while it can be made to sound decent, it is the transistor radio sound of modern digital media. It's big selling point originally was all the people who felt they could pirate all this music off the net for free before Napster became a pay to play deal. It's here, all the kids seem to love it, it certainly is portable and versatile, I am just too much of a whole album experience person to warm up to it. Having thousands of songs in an Ipod or whatever just doesn't do it for me. I prefer cassette tapes that I recorded of complete albums, although I plan to go over to recording cds eventually. But it will still be lp source material as first choice, 2 channel SACD, DVD-A, or music DVD-V as second choice, redbook cd as third choice, downloaded mp3s do not interest me. And if all music eventually ONLY becomes available in an mp3 format, then it will have definately been the work of the Devil, or at least his many minions in computer land. @:
Well, I think it is a matter of degree. This is just pure conjecture, but I would guess that the ratio of bad-sounding CD's to good-sounding CD's is much lower than the ratio of bad-sounding MP3 files to good-sounding MP3 files. But then, it really boils down to how you define "bad-sounding" and "good-sounding". In any event, I do appreciate your point.ssully said:If poor implementation makes something the tool of the devil, then we'll all be hearing lots of those modern over-amped remastered CDs in hell. Not to mention lots of those 'fake stereo' LPs.
You are probably right. I haven't really given online music access another shot for a few years. Maybe it's time to see what the scene is like these days? Ah, who am I kidding. I've got thousands of LPs to listen to. Downloading music is just another activity to whittle away at my already precious time.ssully said:I almost never download music, and when I do it's usually from trading posts where lossless is the rule (and these are not hard to find -- so maybe you are trading at the wrong places, Cai?) so the 'sorting through crap' thing isn't an issue, for me.
newbyquad said:All I was asking what if people took the DTS encoded versions of the Old Quad tapes and albums and made them into MP3's so they could be stored or for other reasons ;'>
A 320 Mp3 transferred back into a WAV file and then burned onto a CD or DVD should sound just fine. I mean we are not dealing with the best material here, 8-tracks mostly.
newbyquad said:i was interested in it only as a means to send to someone and have them open it up and convert it back to a wav file.
a mp3 at 320 converted back to .wav is almost exactly the same as before it was compressed. the only way anyone can tell is with sophisticated instruments. the grateful dead community does it all the time and those guys are picky.
blackbirdr said:If they were picky they would be listing to The Allman Brothers ! :banana:
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