[_Seth]

Originally Posted by Stu

Yeah awful sounding video conversions for the true audiophile, right? I seriously giggle at people who source their music from YouTube. It's so cumbersome. Virtually every other option is easier, faster and offers higher quality audio.

Torrents leave everything in the dust if you want a serious, high quality music collection outside the novel idea of paying for the actual physical albums. Most people who diss them just haven't taken the five seconds it takes to figure out that the site link needs to be opened in a torrent tracker and that it is not the file itself.

Or the type of people who still see it at 0.0% downloaded after a minute or so and think to hell with it.

I can sound just as great. I dunno what you've been using.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Phlip

I can sound just as great. I dunno what you've been using.

No, it really cant. I know you think it can but it can't. The average bitrates, compression etc don't lie. Get a YouTube upload of a song, get the song on physical CD, and play them one after another on a proper pair of speakers.

I'm sure it sounds clean and alright, sure, but if you really listen the little nuances become abundant.

This all goes out the window of course if you're using some crummy iPOD earjacks or inbuilt laptop speakers as your benchmark.