djjimmylyons

Hey Bottlerocket, I'm kinda new to this site. It's not unethical (sorry 'bout the double negative) to copy your links and post them elsewhere right? I started a FB page called "Dear iTunes, We Want Better Quality Audio" and I'd like to post these there (you should go click "like" and chime in as well). It's mostly recording school students and other nerds trying to feed the dialogue. It's like we're waiting for a critical mass on this issue. Also, if you read this Jerico: props on the Big Trouble in Little China pic. thanks, jl

Bit depth is a systems ability to represent the dynamic range of the signal. A cymbal crash will decay naturally but a digital recorder has to have a high bit depth to represent that. It doesn't matter what the overall dynamic range is for a recording, there are still sounds within that recording, that have decays in them that we need accurately recorded/represented. Picture legos. With a lot of really small legos, you can almost make a wheel...

That article was weak on so many levels, I don't know where to start. Yes the "loudness wars" is a huge problem but, to say that it's a justification for not improving the consumer product is ridiculous. As a matter of fact you might say that one of the reasons the "loudness wars" is happening is that people are only listening to low quality downloads to begin with. It's just a bad article. Here's something: DVD blu ray is selling like crazy and it has 24 bit uncompressed audio. So you can listen to Pauly Shore in 24bit but not Steely Dan or Hendrix? C'mon. What's happening already with blu ray is the price is coming down. The same will happen over time with this.

Paul, It's a funny comment but, the point of 24bit being the "target" is, that this is how the music is being recorded(if it's digital which of course 95% of it is). So the music stays in it's source bit depth. Bit depth is an amplitude assignment and generally represents your systems ability to faithfully represent the dynamic range of your source material... and 24bit is pretty good at that. But when the consumer product is a lower bit depth than the master recording, processing called "dither" is introduced to add noise (yep noise) to the source to aid the bit depth conversion. I'm sorry I'm geeking out in such a big way. I've just wanted this for awhile and I'm getting excited. In closing, yes I do want 256bit downloads. hahaha. -jimmy facebook page: Dear Itunes We Want Better Quality Audio

Dear Itunes We Want Better Quality Audio this is a facebook page that has been up and running for about a month. Click "like" and join the squawkin'. The limited release Beatles usb drive can be the template for the future. I've copied links to sights that show hi-end (or mid hi end) companies like Denon are actually putting usb inputs on their smaller systems that are 24 bit flac compatible. There's a lot of information to weed through but this obviously would be a great thing. Think about this: the music industry has not upgrade the consumer product since the cd (16 bit) in 1981. C'mon.