[geeks] Audio Recording

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/25/11 09:18, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> For an extreme example, i had a coworker who, years ago, ripped his 
> entire cd collection on his laptop and encoded them with 96kbps mp3 
> because he couldn't tell the difference on his crappy built in laptop 
> speakers between that and the original CD.  As soon as he listened to 
> those files on something else, he immediately figured out that he had a 
> problem.

I don't know how people even listen to music on laptop speakers at all
in the first place.  They're *awful*, and the result is painful to hear.
 headphones are an improvement, but my experience is laptops almost
invariably have far too much electrical noise to tolerate on headphones.

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