Re: (idm) RealAudio Quality

From Nate Harrison
Sent Wed, Oct 14th 1998, 18:04

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Christopher Fahey wrote:

> >>>Anyone point me to any good realaudio on the net...
> >
> >Check out the new issue of Urban Sounds (www.urbansounds.com), for not
> >just Realaudio clips...
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>     But is it just me, but does anyone else here find most RealAudio
> unlistenable due to the crappy sound quality?
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totally...half the time I don't bother...

>     IDM is all about the details and nuances of sound itself, not just ab=
out
> a repetitive beat or interesting lyrics. While Alanis Morisette at
> 11k/8bit/mono with ultra-compression might not be any noticably worse tha=
n
> the album ;), to listen to that kind of RealAudio of Autechre in anything
> but ISDN quality or better is to rob the music of a great deal of its val=
ue.
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>     And I'm not even an audiophile. Honestly, I detest audiophilia.
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>     I have a T1 at my office, and I'm often frustrated when the only
> RealAudio available to me is 28k crap.


Oh, but you're a bandwidth snob eh:)


 My request to RealAudio publishers
> (provided they can afford the bandwith/server space) is to provide
> super-high quality versions of everything they post for those of us with
> high bandwidth access.
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>     Yes, I'm spoiled with the T1 at the office and an ISDN at home, but s=
o
> are many many other people. Thoughts?
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me too! C'mon, there's got to be a sizable amount pf people on this list
that have tech related jobs who have T1's at work...let's here it for hi
res realaudio!

peace

Nate


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