"Robert Morein" wrote in message
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:
: "paul packer" wrote in message
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: On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:36:42 -0700, "Sylvan Morein, DDS"
: wrote:
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: In article , "paul packer"
: wrote:
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: When minidisc first began to be taken
: seriously (around '97) some listeners reported that they found the
: sound BETTER than the original. Of course their impressions weren't
: taken seriously, for how could a compressed medium sound better than
: the original? And yet...under certain circumstances it could indeed.
:
: I believe the spin on this was that the compression removed content that
: confused the brain, allowing it to concentrate on the music. I never bought
: this, but I didn't fool around with it enough to refute it.
:
: Paul, did you have subjective experiences that supported this?
:

Here's a spin:
Dormer delivering some rough tracks..
Packer reducing the tracks to ever lower bitrates
Setting: the old folks home where 'Sylvan' lives
McKelvy doing a sideline DBT with hearing aids
and Bob's your uncle :-)

the idea being that really old folks would find the
reduxed to the max setting the most palatable.
R.