MP3 Quality vs. CD Quality
I was just ripping a CD to my computer when I decided to listen to the quality of the CD compared to the quality of the created MP3. I rip my CDs at 320 Kbps (Kilo bits per second), the highest that I can. Anyway, when I listened to them right after each other, I must say that MP3 sound quality is vastly inferior to CD sound quality. The CD sounded much better than did the MP3.
This concerns me quite a bit. I have been spending $20 per month on an eMusic subscription where I can download albums in MP3 format. (If you sign up using that link, I get some credit from eMusic.) I am surprised just how much better the CD sounds. I may have to re-think how I get my music. It may be very expensive to replace my music with the CD-quality version, as I have spent over $200 on the music I have obtained from eMusic.
Labels: annoyances, observations, technology
posted by James Cassell at
7/09/2007 09:10:00 PM
1 Comments:
I am glad to see you at last discovered the great music rip-off of our time - the music industry selling even classical music at an inferior sound quality to CD but at the same price, or even more expensively! It's also getting difficult to find a thin CD player in the shops. The music industry wants us to buy what we already have or had - a great music playing machine. It is caleld the CD player. MP3 is for the tone-deaf.
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Yes, at 11 July, 2008 22:46
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