[BC] Internet STLs

[Rick Heil]

Chip,

I'm with Cowboy here - I think you'd be hard pressed to find a 16-25 year old (who isn't interested in recording or broadcasting), who has a really quality pair of headphones (my "quality" pair are AKG K701s, and even those probably don't come close to measuring up to what some of the users on this list have!).  I've been carefully taught in class and with practical experiences about compression, cascading codecs, and protecting my ears - but I'd guess that most have not.  Some of the DJs I train at WONY can barely tell the difference between a terrible YouTube encoded track and a WAV or OGG file - this to me is telling that my generation is not protecting and cherishing our ears like we should, and is just "used to" compression in everything now.

Granted, this doesn't excuse poor audio quality, far from it.  But until Apple starts shipping quality IEMs or regular "cans" with their iPods and internet bandwidth becomes such that downloading WAV or OGG files is trivial, my generation will probably continue to ruin its hearing and accept poorer quality compressed audio as a norm.

-Rick
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Broadcast List USER <Broadcast at fetrow.org> wrote:
>Sorry, Curt, but you are WRONG.

>I encrypt most of my music in Apple Lossless, and some in 320 kbps AAC
>+.  The latter is not that great, but it i OK on my iPod.  Running it
>through an STL and audio processing is not good though.

>I have several sets of IEMs that cost over $500, plus some really
>expensive headphones.  I also have some really nice speakers, Fried
>Model H and Quad electrostatics.

>Computer speakers are NOT the standard.

>Heck, my car stereo is pretty darned good, as is the system in my
>wife's car.

>Ear buds are one bad thing, but IEMs are quite another.  I have more
>than a few.

>--chip

>On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:54 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

>> Message: 12
>> From: Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net>
>> [...]
>> The hot items these days are iPods with 1 inch speakers, or ear buds,
>> when once upon a time it was a MacIntosh with Voice of the Theaters
>> in the basement.
>>
>> Sad.
>>
>> --
>> Cowboy