On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:08:54 +0900, B Robson <luvrethecat@hinet.com>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

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>Michael Cash wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 May 2005 23:09:47 +0900, B Robson
>> <greg-the-stop-sign@tism.com.au> brought down from the Mount tablets
>> inscribed:
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>>>Michael Cash wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, 26 May 2005 17:35:03 +0900, B Robson <luvrethecat@hinet.com>
>>>>brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
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>>>>>For those of you with a cloth ear there are specific measurements of 
>>>>>sound quality, frequency response curves, dynamic response, and signal 
>>>>>to noise ratio being the most obvious. Good luck finding these on the 
>>>>>iPod site. Of course most iPod users use mp3 128K and so can't hear the 
>>>>>difference anyway.
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>>>>I spend most of my days happily listening at 32k.
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>>>Your sound booth leaves a lot to be desired.
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>> True, true. I'm still missing lots of episodes of The Lone Ranger.
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>BTW I use WAV files or OGG at 512k depending on the music. Morphine 
>requires pure WAV files.

Oh, were we talking about music? 128k does me just fine for that.

Sometimes I come into possession of stand-up comedy routines that for
some strange reason have been encoded at double that or above. I
generally batch process them through dBpowerAMP down to a more
reasonable 64k.




--

Michael Cash

"Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash.
Clowns and jokers."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College