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Sorry if someone has posted this link already:
Article from May 6 at http://www.msnbc.com/news/krakow.asp
Article from May 6 at http://www.msnbc.com/news/krakow.asp
I personally can't get enough of AAC -- I love it. Who else here has completely converted to AAC from MP3?It?s true: Apple?s AAC cuts sound great with the tiny little speakers that come with computers. And they sound pretty good on an original (but AAC upgraded) iPod through the stock headphones. But listen through good headphones and what you?ll hear is dull-sounding bass, slightly sibilant voice quality and a lack of three-dimensionality.
When I moved up to the DVD player connected to my stereo, the difference was huge. The AAC cuts had a complete lack of air around the singer and instruments in the band. The sound quality was somewhat dynamic, but dull sounding. When I compared the downloaded songs to the real CD it was no contest. The uncompressed CD .AIFF files sounded much, much, much better.
This might not matter to most people, but consider this: The Wallflowers CD cost me $11.99 when I bought it. I can make as many legal copies as I like for my personal use ? and those copies all sound great and play on any device I can think of. I can also rip the songs onto my MP3 players and the iPod. The Wallflowers download from iTunes cost me $9.99, is limited in where I can play and store it ? and the sound is inferior.