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... >=20 > =20 > But is it just me, but does anyone else here find most RealAudio > unlistenable due to the crappy sound quality? >=20 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. >=20 > And I'm not even an audiophile. Honestly, I detest audiophilia. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Yes, I'm spoiled with the T1 at the office and an ISDN at home, but s= o > are many many other people. Thoughts? >=20 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 > - Cf >=20 > ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - >=20 > c h r i s t =F8 p h e r f =AA h e y >=20 > . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ > xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx > 2 1 2 - 6 3 4 - 6 9 5 0 x 2 5 8 > http://www.raremedium.com > - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . >=20 >=20