Re: Re(2): Re(2): TI-H: MP3s

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: Re(2): Re(2): TI-H: MP3s
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:18:54 -0700
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Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


If you want good sound, what ever sound card you have, you need to get the
Intermetal stero DAC which is made to interface to DVD, CD, amd MPEG
bitstreams.  The DAC on your sound card is made to interface to a computer.
They use different bitstreams, and sound different.

>    What the hell are you babbling about? Don't try to make yourself look
>like an 'eleet' audiophile. mp3's sound practically cd quality at 128k/44.1
>if they are encoded correctly.
>
>-Gabe
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 5:47 PM
>Subject: Re: Re(2): Re(2): TI-H: MP3s
>
>
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>>>>and most of all, you can hardly reliaze any decrease in quality!
>>>
>>>
>>>I can hear it on my speakers, and on my cousins Marantz and Snell
>>>equipment it is obvious (still sounds pretty good, but not nearly as
>>>nice as the CD).
>>
>>Tell them to either get a new sound card or something like that.  MP3s
>>sound horrible unless you buy a specialized DAC card.  NOT a Sound blaster
>>or something liek that...
>>
>>Actually, 150 CDs would only take 8,125MB.
>>
>>>I'm all for more compact storage, my entire CD collection (~150)
>>>would fit into just about 10GB if MP3 encoded.  Drop a bunch of the
>>>songs I don't like and I could fit it all onto one 9GB drive.
>>>If I had an extra monitor and sound card, I'd consider setting up my
>>>extra computer to replace my CD player.  But I don't, so I don't
>>>bother collecting MP3's. (I do have an 800mb graphics library tho...:)
>>>
>>>DK
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