Hello Arelor!

** On Sunday 18.07.21 - 15:53, Arelor wrote to Sean Dennis:

I also keep a lot of backups of my albums in FLAC. The so-
so albums I backup as high quality ogg. I am lucky in that
I have access to nice sound systems. Most kids nowadays use
crappy equipment and you would not tell the difference
between a full featured FLAC and a crappy mp3 sampled at 8
khz on it. It all sounds like garbage :-)

Most kids nowadays just use the in-ear headphones too. The
right quality ear-piece could be pretty awesome sounding
especially if the quality is good. But the "crappy mp3" of
yesteryear that was predominantly only 128kbps from iTunes for
example, yeah.. that's a pretty bad entry point for the aural
experience. However, today's streaming services are offering
entry-level quality akin to atleast 256kbps - which isn't too
shabby with the in-ear headphones.

I've always imagined that when my barn could ever be restored,
I'd have "live" open-air concerts in the upper hayloft with
high-quality sound systems.
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Re: nice sound systems
By: August Abolins to Arelor on Sun Jul 18 2021 05:58 pm

Hello Arelor!

** On Sunday 18.07.21 - 15:53, Arelor wrote to Sean Dennis:

I also keep a lot of backups of my albums in FLAC. The so-
so albums I backup as high quality ogg. I am lucky in that
I have access to nice sound systems. Most kids nowadays use
crappy equipment and you would not tell the difference
between a full featured FLAC and a crappy mp3 sampled at 8
khz on it. It all sounds like garbage :-)

Most kids nowadays just use the in-ear headphones too. The
right quality ear-piece could be pretty awesome sounding
especially if the quality is good. But the "crappy mp3" of
yesteryear that was predominantly only 128kbps from iTunes for
example, yeah.. that's a pretty bad entry point for the aural
experience. However, today's streaming services are offering
entry-level quality akin to atleast 256kbps - which isn't too
shabby with the in-ear headphones.

I've always imagined that when my barn could ever be restored,
I'd have "live" open-air concerts in the upper hayloft with
high-quality sound systems.
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I think most people here who uses earpods use the ones they snatch for free from trains and bus rides. I don't know many people investing in quality earpods, and even then, they are serviceable but not great more often than not.

Low quality earpods don't grind my gears because earpods serve a specific purpose and I take for granted you are not going to get the best quality out of affordable ones. What DOES grind my gears is people using speakers the size of a candybar nokia as their main music system.

I don't intend people to use a Behringer speaker the size of a person (I have 4, by the way) but there is no way you are going to sqeeze good quality out of such small equipment. It is pure phisics. You cannot produce a long sound wave if the speaker is the size of your fist. This cuts a lot of frequencies out from the spectrum. It is ok to have a small portable speaker for a beach party but not as your main home sound system :-(


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Hello Arelor!

** On Monday 19.07.21 - 03:48, Arelor wrote to August Abolins:

Re: nice sound systems
By: August Abolins to Arelor on Sun Jul 18 2021 05:58 pm

[...]

..It is ok to have a small portable speaker for a beach
party but not as your main home sound system :-(

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