[MINe 109]

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Jenn wrote:

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MINe 109 wrote:

In article
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Jenn wrote:

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SD wrote:

On 7/27/2006 5:38 PM, Jenn wrote:
Has anyone here done a serious comparison between the sound of an
iTunes
downloaded track burned to CD and a store-bought CD? What did you
hear?

Depends what you play it on.

As implied by the question (concerning a track from iTunes burned to
CD), I'd be listening on a CD player.

If all you will ever do is listen to music
on your ipod with cheap head phones and never on a good stereo, stick
with itunes.

I do very little of my listening via the iPod (mostly in the car). What
I'm trying to determine is if music for sale from the iTunes music store
will sound the same as a purchased CD. While I generally wish to
support physical stores (both mom-and-pop locals and chains like Tower)
I can see that the convenience of downloading would sometimes be
helpful, but not at the expense of audio quality.

I don't have any iTunes store downloads to compare, but you could use
the iTunes program set to the store's 128 AAC to rip a cd track and
compare that to the original.

Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. I'm just too cheap to want to pay
$0.99 for some music I already have! ;-)

I won't show you my collection of Reiner Concerto for Orchestra
reissues!

To these ears, mp3 sounds fine for casual listening (which is all I do
with it) at 256 and AAC 128 sounds better than mp3 128.

Thanks. I fear that I'm going to wish that the iTunes store downloaded
at better than 128, but the only way to know is to try, obviously.

Grrr. Searching for "Elgar" made iTunes crash. I was going to look to
see if there are unexpected bargains, like four movement symphonies at
..99/movement.

Stephen