Re: (idm) RealAudio Quality

From Hrvatski
Sent Thu, Oct 15th 1998, 04:51

>    But is it just me, but does anyone else here find most RealAudio
>unlistenable due to the crappy sound quality?

dunno... if you've got half decent speakers on yr kit (what, no external
speakers? come on...) it doesn't sound half bad (the JBL's we've got here
sound superb for only $150... kicker and all...). 95% of us still have
dial-up connections for 'leisure' use of the internet... No streaming
44.1K/16-bit AIFF/WAV just yet. New realudio specs (5.0) are getting there
as far as reasonable facsimile of 'actual' quality goes. For a
demonstration; http://www.tiac.net/users/sheket/audio.html . There's also
the problem of server space (how many of you have more than 10 megs of web
space?) We've fit around 435 minutes of audio into the same space only 50
minutes of MP3 would take up (or 5 minutes of stereo CD-quality). Quantity
over quality I 'spose... -Våt.

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