Lars shows his ignorance by claiming that people are downloading "1st generation, perfect digital copies of master recordings from all the world". When the sound quality difference, even with the best encoding, is quite bad compared to the original. Did anyone explain the MP3 encoding process, and the quality degradation, especially of distorted guitars, like in Heavy Metal?
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Lars shows his ignorance by claiming that people are downloading "1st generation, perfect digital copies of master recordings from all the world". When the sound quality difference, even with the best encoding, is quite bad compared to the original. Did anyone explain the MP3 encoding process, and the quality degradation, especially of distorted guitars, like in Heavy Metal?