[Jenn]

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MINe 109 wrote:

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Jenn wrote:

In article ,
MINe 109 wrote:

In article
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Jenn wrote:

In article ,
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!

LOL I'm with ya, bro. I have SO much repeated material, due to
collection obsessions. The most obvious for me is Fennell's recordings.
Because of our personal connection, I have to have EVERY release and
re-release. For example, here are my recordings of him doing The Stars
and Stripes Forever:


Sousa, J.P. Stars & Stripes Forever Fennell/CSW Telarc 80099
Sousa, J.P. Stars & Stripes Forever Fennell/CSW Telarc SACD 60639
Sousa, J.P. Stars & Stripes Forever Fennell/CSW LP/Telarc 10043
Sousa, J.P. Stars & Stripes Forever Fennell/EWE LP/Merc SRI 2-77010
Sousa, J.P. Stars & Stripes Forever Fennell/EWE Merc 416 147
Sousa, J.P. Stars & Stripes Forever Fennell/EWE Merc 434 334
Sousa, J.P. Stars & Stripes Forever Fennell/EWE LP/Merc 90105
Sousa, J.P. Stars & Stripes Forever Fennell/EWE LP/Merc SR2 9131
Sousa, J.P. Stars & Stripes Forever Fennell/EWE alumni Live concert
CD

Straight from the Department of Redundancy Department! lol