On Feb 24, 8:59*pm, Mark-T wrote:
On Feb 22, band beyond description
wrote:
some in the music
industry are rethinking their reliance on 16-bit quality for music
downloads, and Apple's reportedly looking into upgrading their
entire sales stream to 24-bit
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web.../24.bit.music/
As a result, online music stores could eventually offer songs
that sound truer to their original recordings, perhaps at a
premium price.
Professional music producers generally capture studio
recordings in a 24-bit, high-fidelity audio format.
Before the originals, or "masters" in industry parlance,
are pressed onto CDs or distributed to digital sellers
like Apple's iTunes, they're downgraded to 16-bit files.
If the master is the original, then what does
"re-mastered" mean, as commonly used?
A genuine original copy?
"Waiter, I'll have the jumbo shrimp."
Mark
I read somewhere that HD video is only perceived as better if the
audio is also of higher quality. Perhaps "the market" is wising up to
the fact that the audio out of their IPOD is crap compared to their
TV. If apple up the quality of the silly white earphones then great.
As others have said there are better ways of doing great audio but we
can assume that this is marketing led.
Colin