<< Go to a high end stereo/speaker shop and bring in the same album in a compressed and uncompressed format. I guarantee the people working there (if their worth their salt) will be able to tell the difference. >>
very true. After spending an hour in a hi-fi speaker room armed with Dead Can Dance and Orb, I noticed a great difference in sound from one pair of speakers to another. After going with Paradigm Monitor 5.1 speakers bi-wired to my Onkyo 100w amp, everything sounds better. Opposite with MP3s now for they sound worse... It's all opinion really. Like eyesight, some people have diffeent hearing ability than others. There's no contacts or glasses to compensate until you get to extreme cases where hearing devices come in, but those only amplify, not clarify. As for DVD picture quality, I read an interview with Neil Young about his Greendale release, and how he wanted to do a DVD, but complained that a compromise is involved - you can have either superb video quality or superb audio quality, but not both. I can see flaws in DVDs that make them look cheap - gradiation lines in shadowing of skin tones, the way smoke dissipates in the air looks like bunches of tiny squares, and in really dark scenes there is little black definition. Forget watching soccer on sattellite tv too, the players and cameras move, but the field stays solid... Why couldn't they just use the same format as laser disc? Gavin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/