"When the day comes that music companies stop producing uncompressed CDs, I will stop buying music forever."
What a twat. More interested in the purity of the waveform than the music. People like you deserve tinnitus. That'd fuck your $200/ft interconnects, wouldn't it?
Lets look at it another way...bad in the days of vinyl records, 33RPM records had the highest quality sound. You could buy 45RPM singles for about a dollar (I'm sensing a strong parallel here). The thing was the 45 didn't sound as good as the 33 RPM. They were made of lower quality materials (much thinner vinyl), and I think the styluses (styli???) of the day were optimized for the grooe size of 33's and tone arms angle were optimized for 12" 33 RPM records.
Wrong. 45RPM is superior to 33RPM as there's substiantially less tracking distortion, better low-level detail, but requires significantly more vinyl for the same amount of music. Hence the trend for some albums to be released in a multi-disc 45RPM package as an upmarket option to the standard 33rpm single.
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"When the day comes that music companies stop producing uncompressed CDs, I will stop buying music forever."
What a twat. More interested in the purity of the waveform than the music. People like you deserve tinnitus. That'd fuck your $200/ft interconnects, wouldn't it?
Wrong. 45RPM is superior to 33RPM as there's substiantially less tracking distortion, better low-level detail, but requires significantly more vinyl for the same amount of music. Hence the trend for some albums to be released in a multi-disc 45RPM package as an upmarket option to the standard 33rpm single.