[ARSCLIST] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] CD Longevity (was Vinegar syndrome audio tapes

[Frank Strauss <frank.strauss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom-I am a long time lurker on this list, trying to learn what I can, 
and have been very interested in this thread.  I have put about 500 cd's 
into iTunes, using mp3 format at 196 kbs.  I love music, and have always 
thought I had reasonably good ears.  I am disturbed to think that with 
iTunes(and by this, I probably mean any compressed format) you have 
vastly inferior audio quality.  It is probably my aging ears, but I have 
trouble telling which is the original cd and which is the iTunes mp3.  
Are you or others on this list able to listen to both formats without 
knowing which is which, and tell the difference? (As in the test in 
Grand Central Station, NYC, where they had live behind one curtain and 
AR speakers behind the other)  Thanks, FBS