[Slowhand] Re: Re: Disappointment

[ToeKneeF]

It's amazing how much progress has been made in the past couple decades 
when it comes to processing and "remastering" (I use the term loosely, 
since it's one of the more abused references) audio.................Much 
of these sound processing techniques rely on having ALL the audio data 
available, even that which you cannot hear.

Point taken, I had not even considered the possibilities which might 
become available to us as new technologies are developed. Given all the 
progress we've already seen, I guess that was pretty short-sighted of me.

True enough, I seem to remember reading about a device meant to drive 
off teenagers by putting out a sound that most adults can't hear.

This past year I saw news reports on a ringtone that was of such a high 
frequency, those over 25 couldn't hear it. Students were using them to 
receive calls while in school. A student with that ringtone got busted 
when a student teacher was in the room and heard the phone ringing!

With that said, I do think there is a useful place in the trading world 
for compressed audio, for the very reasons you mentioned: it's a fast 
and easy way to make sound samples available, so that others can make a 
decision about which recordings are worth pursuing.  Let's face it ... 
most of them aren't!

Having considered your first point, I believe it might be OK for 
personal recordings (I have a collection of "roadtrip" MP3 CDs which 
significantly reduce the amount of entertainment material we bring along 
on vacation) and evaluation samples, but for trading, I can now see why 
the lossless character of a recording should be preserved, no matter 
what it's current quality..................T

-- 
"The true danger is, when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients,
and by parts" ..................Edmund Burke

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