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NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 11:00:22 -0500
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 11:00:22 -0500
From: Tommy Boy <Tommy@Boy.com>
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Subject: Re: How can anyone listen to 24kbps?!
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Music sounds horrible at 24kbps. Vocal frequencies fit neatly into that
range, so anything above that is oversampling.
On Thu, 1 May 2014 04:56:05 -0500, HowardsFear@hfear.info wrote
(in article <k964m996cb9fhhled8obrco72t4ppdg9vi@4ax.com>):
> I see stuff posted here and elsewhere sometimes that is compressed to
> 24kbps.
> I have only one question:
> For god's sake, WHY?! If you're going to record something and
> distribute it, at least make it 48k kbps! At 24, it just sounds
> harrible!
> I remember back in the 60's I had a little AM radio the size of my
> hand that I'd listen to late at night when I was supposed to be in bed
> asleep, and even THAT sounded better than mp3's at 24kbps!
>
> JHEEZH!
> p.s. excuse my rant but I just had to say it
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