I hate mp3 because Of apple treating it like some kind of revolutionary things when we should be embracing quality higher than cd's like HD audio.
CD's are still the de facto standard. Except for the small release of Hybrid Audio, HDCD, SACD, or dvd audio supercd.
Just becuase the us decided to get lazy and embrace napsters because poor college students preferred to steal music rather than buy it does not make it some kind of good thing.
I don't need my hearing checked ive done the blind audio test before and my ears can tell the difference between a low dvd encode and a full bitrate PCM track.
I don't even have the most expensive equipment either, and even i notice the better highs and lows on a higher bitrate encode. Of course it does depend on the quality of the source to begin with and compression has gotten better but mp3 is still shit compared to cds and even old LP' or casettes.
HD audio might have failed in the usa due to shortsightedness but in countries who are pushing the limits of technology like japan they are still doing healthy business. Americans really don't seem to care about 5.1 audio, lossless music or whatever.
A lot of the HD audio ideas have been incorparated into Blu Ray movies but that is still a niche market because people just steal and download the rips of the movies rather than paying for them.
If it was not for apples Itunes things like Mp3 and other compression types automatically make me think of piracy and illegal use of bittorrent and bootlegs. Naturally you can make the file sized much smaller. And go for Quantitity over quality. sure it makes music portable and you can carry it all around on your ipod. I don't have an ipod as it is gadgedtry that is backwards video quality lower than dvd, and audio quality lower than cd. Once they produce a product up to spec maybe i'll buy it until then steve jobs can shove it.
I don't care if it does not fit in my pocket or only fits a single cd my discman i'll take any day over the ipod simply because it sounds better. You get a good set of bose headphones on top of that and your set. Fuck mp3 and ipod.
So uk and USA people like things backwards music as de-evolution rather than evolution or revoltionary step towards better formats and higher fidelity lossless HD encodes straight off of digital master tapes.
People who like youtube quality video won't have a problem with low quality mp3 audio as they are either retards or simpletons.
Moth3r has to be kidding that he thinks 128kbps MP3 is comparable to CD which can be several thousand kbps if not megabites per second.
MP3 is all well and good if you have a low quality dub off a casette tape to digital, but if you are a studio starting with a master that sounds better than what most people can reproduce at home why would you use mp3?
Even as a guy who does not have an HDTV or Blu ray player i consider myself an Audiophile and Videophile. And was an Earlier adopter of DVD and i have a laserdisc player as well. I'm not rolling in money, still does not mean i cannot appreciate quality.
Its true that the mathmatical quantifiers are way over my head when it comes to digital music and video. After all is not digital just 1's and 0's and math. Computers are called so because of their computations per second. All i know is what my eyes see and what my ears hear.