I'm confused by the Jing assignment, but I'll keep working on it....
If we continue to primarily listen to audio through compressed internet media, will our lowest common denominator for sound quality plummet? Or will technology advance to the point that we can no longer tell the difference?
This is a great question. My guess would be that technology is going to advance to the point where streaming internet audio (I’m guessing this is what you’re talking about) will be high quality. MP3s for example, have become better in quality over the past number of years. 128kpbs used to be the standard, nowadays audio “purists” (if you can call them that since they’re listening to MP3s) won’t encode in anything less than 320kbps or CD quality sound. Streaming will get there eventually. Bandwidth will get to the point where streaming CD quality sound will be possible.
ReplyDeleteI do think the technology will advance also, but even now while I know there is a "loss" in quality with mp3 files, I find the quality of music on my ipod superior than that of, say, my car cd player. So maybe while the quality of a compressed music file may be considered not as good as a track on a cd, the quality of the technology those files are played on helps to make up some of the difference.
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